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JLabel - Show long text as multiple lines?

So, say that I have a really long line that I want to display in JLabel . How can i do this?

Currently, longer lines are appearing:

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I need to resize the window to see the full text.

How can I make it so that where the text almost reaches the width of my JFrame ?

I'm not sure any code is needed here so you can answer it, but still:

my frame properties:

 frame = new JFrame(); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.setSize(new Dimension(450, 400)); frame.setLocation(new Point(400, 300)); frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());

Label I want to change:

 question = new JLabel("Question:"); question.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 15)); question.setHorizontalAlignment(JLabel.CENTER);

EDIT: More Details:

I read the lines from the file and then show them. The line size is not fixed, so I don’t know where to put <br> in.

EDIT 2:

I ended up using JTextArea .

 private JTextArea textAreaProperties(JTextArea textArea) { textArea.setEditable(false); textArea.setCursor(null); textArea.setOpaque(false); textArea.setFocusable(false); textArea.setLineWrap(true); textArea.setWrapStyleWord(true); return textArea; }
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Another example showing that with the correct layout manager, the text enclosed in HTML tags is automatically transferred to the available space ...

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 public class TestHTMLLabel { public static void main(String[] args) { new TestHTMLLabel(); } public TestHTMLLabel() { EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { try { UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName()); } catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) { } StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(64); sb.append("<html>I have something to say, it beter to burn out then to fade away."). append(" This is a very long String to see if you can wrap with in"). append("the available space</html>"); JLabel label = new JLabel(sb.toString()); JFrame frame = new JFrame("Test"); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout()); frame.add(label); frame.setSize(100, 100); frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null); frame.setVisible(true); } }); } }
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Use HTML to display text inside the label.

 JLabel fancyLabel = new JLabel("<html>Punch Taskmaster</html>");

(added example suggested by Taskmaster)

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Format with HTML. It works great.

 import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) { final JFrame frame = new JFrame(); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.setSize(new Dimension(450, 400)); frame.setLocation(new Point(400, 300)); frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout()); final JLabel question = new JLabel("<html>Question:<br>What is love?<br>Baby don't hurt me<br>Don't hurt me<br>No more</html>"); question.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 15)); question.setHorizontalAlignment(JLabel.CENTER); frame.add(question); frame.setVisible(true); } }
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Something like that. The answer received by rcook is very correct. Its just an example to show how this can be done.

  b1 = new JLabel("<html>Default Lable I have to resize the <br/> window to see the complete text.</html>");
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