Tabs are collapsed

Question

I am creating a GUI where the main window will contain a number of tabs. They should be positioned next to each other horizontally.

Using this code makes a "collapsed" version, where I can toggle the tabs with the arrows.

    JTabbedPane tabs = new JTabbedPane();
    JPanel tab_virksomheder = new JPanel();
    tabs.addTab("Virksomheder", tab_virksomheder);

    JPanel tab_praktikpladser = new JPanel();
    tabs.addTab("Praktikpladser", tab_praktikpladser);

    panel.add(tabs);

How can I make the tabs stand next to each other?

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Read the JTabbedPane API and follow the link to the Swing tutorial on "How to Use Tabbed Panes" for a working example. — camickr, Feb 14 '13 at 16:34

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '13 at 10:04

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The panel container should have a layout set like BorderLayout for instance.

panel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());

answered Feb 14 '13 at 10:04

Dan D.

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

The exact result depends on several things:

The platform's TabbedPaneUI, AquaTabbedPaneUI on Mac OS X.
The setting supplied to setTabLayoutPolicy().
The preferred size of the content, used when pack() is invoked on the enclosing Window.

You can use this example to experiment with various Look&Feel settings. Note how the content's preferred size defines the size of each tab's content pane.

Tabs are collapsed

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