How do we changeline in a label?

Question

I have a label and when setting the text I want to change line . For instance

String str=\"first line \\n Secondline \";
JLabel label.setText(str);
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Answer 1

Swing does not uses classical line breaks. Instead, for a reason I never fully understood, it uses HTML 3.2. As a consequence, to have your text correctly displayed, yopu have to rely upon HTML content :

String str= "First line
Second line"

However, if you really want to, there are other possibilities ...