Java Textarea ScrollPane

Question

I have created a textarea, and i need a scrollbar applied to the textarea when necessary (when the text gets too long down and it cant be read anymore).

this is the code

Answer 1

• You have to remove the code line that makes the JTextArea have absolute size on the screen due to using setBounds(). This makes it non-resizable, and JScrollPane works only if its content is resizable.

  // wrong
  textArea.setBounds(10, 152, 456, 255);
  

• Please read JTextArea and JScrollPane tutorial; please run examples from both tutorials.