tab space on a JLabel not showing - weird - Java

Question

I\'m trying to update a JLabel with new text and I need this text to have tabed space.

This is my code:

public void setNewLabelTxt(String text)
{
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Answer 1

JLabel doesn't render \t in any special way (ie, it doesn't convert the \t to spaces before rendering it).

Instead, you should use something like

text = text.replaceAll("\t", "    ");

Before applying it to the label.