I have a JTextArea in Java. When I place a large amount of text in it, the text area provides horizontal scrolling.
How can I make my text area wrap instead?
I have a JTextArea in Java. When I place a large amount of text in it, the text area provides horizontal scrolling.
How can I make my text area wrap instead?
Use the JTextArea#setLineWrap
method. This is also illustrated in the Swing JTextArea
tutorial
Look at the API for the methods available to JTextArea, in particular setWrapStyleWord
and setLineWrap
.
Try This :
jTextArea.setLineWrap(true);
In a Swing GUI Designer Like Netbeans IDE,
you could just 'check' the lineWrap in jTextArea property window.
if property window is hidden:
Goto WINDOW -> IDE TOOLS -> Properties
or press
CTRL + SHIFT + 7
In Swing GUI
add the line
jTextArea.setLineWrap(true);