Getting label icon to appear above text

Question

I am trying to get the JLabel icon to appear above the text for the label.

Currently I have the following code;

URL loc = null;
        ImageIcon img = null;
        JLabel label = null;

        frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setBounds(100, 100, 450, 300);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER, 5, 5));

        loc = Test.class.getResource("/Images/imageName.jpg");
        img = new ImageIcon(loc);
        label = new JLabel("someText", img, JLabel.CENTER);
        label.setIconTextGap(0);
        label.setVerticalTextPosition(JLabel.BOTTOM);
        label.setHorizontalTextPosition(JLabel.RIGHT);
        frame.getContentPane().add(label);

The output I currently see is the label text to the right of the image icon. Can anyone suggest what to change?

do you want to put Icon to JLabel, and under Icon (in the JLabel) should be placed describtion — mKorbel, Dec 12 '12 at 14:00
See also this related [example](http://stackoverflow.com/a/13754697/230513). — trashgod, Dec 12 '12 at 18:29

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 03 '18 at 10:16

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label.setVerticalTextPosition(JLabel.BOTTOM);
label.setHorizontalTextPosition(JLabel.CENTER);

You need to center align on the horizontal axis for the text to appear under the icon.

edited May 03 '18 at 10:16

Matthias Braun

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answered Dec 12 '12 at 14:03

Vincent Ramdhanie

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 12 '12 at 14:10

Icon with text beneath

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.swing.*;

public class TopLabel {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Runnable r = new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                JLabel label = new JLabel("Text");

                BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(
                        32,32,BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
                label.setIcon(new ImageIcon(image));

                label.setVerticalTextPosition(SwingConstants.BOTTOM);
                label.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.CENTER);

                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, label);
            }
        };
        // Swing GUIs should be created and updated on the EDT
        // http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/initial.html
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(r);
    }
}

I think he wants "Text", say yellow color, to be inside black square. — Nikolay Kuznetsov, Dec 12 '12 at 14:16
@NikolayKuznetsov If that turns out to be the case, I'll delete the answer. — Andrew Thompson, Dec 12 '12 at 14:19
Ok, the question is not clear. So if that's the case I suggest him to use `drawString`, not sure if that possible to achieve without it. — Nikolay Kuznetsov, Dec 12 '12 at 14:36

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 12 '12 at 14:32

IIUC, and you want to show a text inside (in the middle of) a image/icon then you have an option to use Graphics.drawString() to draw your text inside image.

BufferedImage bimg = ImageIO.read(url);
Graphics2D g = (Graphics2d)img.getGraphics();
g.drawString("Text", x, y); //y > 0
g.dispose();

JLabel label = new JLabel();
label.setIcon(new ImageIcon(bimg));

Getting label icon to appear above text

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