How to you justify/ center text in a showOptionDialog

Question

Simple question related to centering text in a JOptionPane.showOptionDialog;

I tried using the method for a regular JOptionPane using JLabels but that method did not work as the JOptionPane.showOptionDialog method overrides the input text.

JLabel warning = new JLabel()
int x = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(warning,"I want this text \n to be centered","Confirm",JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION,JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE,null,finishedOptions, finishedOptions[0]);
warning.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '21 at 06:07

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You can use HTML for the message body, for example:

String msg = "<html><center><b>I want this text</b></center><center>to be "
           + "<font color=blue>centered</font></center></html>";
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, msg, "Confirm", JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE);

This message box above would look something like:

answered Aug 01 '21 at 06:07

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So I’m still learning Java, how is it that html is allowed to be used this way, if you know? – LuckyBandit74 Aug 01 '21 at 06:14
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[Read this tutorial](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/html.html). :) – DevilsHnd - 退職した Aug 01 '21 at 06:26
The [HTML width can be set using CSS](https://stackoverflow.com/a/7861833/418556) (ATM the HTML is just wide enough to display the text). Remove `` for the same effect. – Andrew Thompson Oct 31 '21 at 10:23

How to you justify/ center text in a showOptionDialog

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