How can I customize the color of the tabbedPane at swing builder?

Question

I want to customize the color of my tabbedPane to fit at the theme of my gui, but I don't know how to do it. I've tried lots of code but still nothing happens.

Here's my gui... enter image description here

thnx in advance ^_^

are you trying to adjust the color of the tab or the inner component background (JTextArea)? — brian_d, Jan 31 '11 at 16:52
actually that was my 2 major problem... the color of of my tab, and i want to lessen the opacity of my TextArea (i want it to be transparent) to show the image at the back(i attached the picture at the jLabel).. — iamanapprentice, Feb 01 '11 at 04:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

For the JTabbedPane look and feel, set the UIManager settings as described in this post Controlling Color in Java Tabbed Pane

Relevant code:

  UIManager.put("TabbedPane.contentAreaColor ",ColorUIResource.GREEN);
  UIManager.put("TabbedPane.selected",ColorUIResource.GREEN);
  UIManager.put("TabbedPane.background",ColorUIResource.GREEN);
  UIManager.put("TabbedPane.shadow",ColorUIResource.GREEN);

  // now construct the tabbed pane
  tab=new JTabbedPane();

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '11 at 16:55

There are couple UIManager setting you can make before you create the GUI but they will be for every JTabbedPane: This will change the selected tab color.

UIManager.put("TabbedPane.selected", Color.RED);

I don't see a setting for the border but you can hide it like so:

UIManager.put("TabbedPane.contentBorderInsets", new Insets(0, 0, 0, 0));

Lastly you can change the background of the tab pane like this:

tab.setBackground(Color.BLUE);

How can I customize the color of the tabbedPane at swing builder?

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