Multiline JLabels - Java [duplicate]

Answer 1

I recommend creating your own custom component that emulates the JLabel style while wrapping:

import javax.swing.JTextArea;

public class TextNote extends JTextArea {
    public TextNote(String text) {
        super(text);
        setBackground(null);
        setEditable(false);
        setBorder(null);
        setLineWrap(true);
        setWrapStyleWord(true);
        setFocusable(false);
    }
}

Then you just have to call:

new TextNote("Here is multiline content.");

Make sure that you set the amount of rows (textNote.setRows(2)) if you want to pack() to calculate the height of the parent component correctly.