How to change the background color on a Java panel?

Question

Right now, the background I get is a grey. I want to change it to black. I tried doing something like setBackground(color.BLACK); but it didnt work. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You could call:

getContentPane().setBackground(Color.black);

Or add a JPanel to the JFrame your using. Then add your components to the JPanel. This will allow you to call

setBackground(Color.black);

on the JPanel to set the background color.