Make a JPanel border with title like in Firefox

Question

I would like to make an option dialog in my application. In this dialog I want to make kind of Areas surrounded with a border and with a title.

An example of what I want is in Firefox:

Firefox Options

How can I do something like that in Java?

Heisenbug · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-21T13:12:02.283

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Here you can find all informations you need.

Basically you can use border factory to create a Border using types available in Swing:

Border lineBorder = BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.black);
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.setBorder(lineBorder);

You can also define your custom borders implementing Border interface.

edited Sep 21 '11 at 13:12

answered Sep 21 '11 at 12:58

Heisenbug

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+1 thats exactly what i was looking for. `BorderFactory.createTitledBorder( loweredetched, "title");` thank you – Neifen Sep 21 '11 at 13:02
for nicest output will be better look for CompoundBorder +1 – mKorbel Sep 21 '11 at 13:13
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@mKorbel: finally you are a 10k user :) – Heisenbug Sep 21 '11 at 13:25
thanks, hmmm http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7498640/manage-gui-and-edt-in-mutli-task-application/7498808#7498808 – mKorbel Sep 21 '11 at 13:34

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