Problem with multi-line JTextField

Question

I have a JTextField and need to have 3 lines in it, such as these:

HI
MY name
is mehdi

How can I set the text in a JTextField? I tried \n, but it didn't work.

Answer 1

You can't get multi-line behavior on single-line JTextField,

use JTextArea instead

info:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080405030738AAJcKjU
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/JTextArea.html

Answer 2

1 : JTextField does not support multiline. what you want is a JTextArea

2 : Newlines aren't the same on all systems, you might have to use "\r\n" if you are running Windows. Since Java 7, there is System.LineSeparator to solve this issue.

(see the Oracle documentation)

Answer 3

JTextArea taText = new JTextArea();
taText.setText("\tHI\nMY name\nis Raku");