I was creating an application with JTabbedPane
using Nimbus look and feel
I have used this code to place tabs:
pane.addTab(\"Welcome\",n
There is a simpler solution using HTML formatting. This is an example using html code to format text, but you can also format other elements within the tab:
final String PRE_HTML = "<html><p style=\"text-align: left; width: 230px\">";
final String POST_HTML = "</p></html>";
tabbedpane.setTitleAt(0, PRE_HTML + "your title" + POST_HTML);
tabbedpane.setTitleAt(2, PRE_HTML + "your title 2" + POST_HTML);
You can set a custom component for rendering the tab title, through JTabbedPane.setTabComponentAt(int index, Component component) method:
Sets the component that is responsible for rendering the title for the specified tab. A null value means
JTabbedPane
will render the title and/or icon for the specified tab. A non-null value means the component will render the title andJTabbedPane
will not render the title and/or icon.Note: The component must not be one that the developer has already added to the tabbed pane.
For instance you can do this:
JLabel label = new JLabel("Tab1");
label.setHorizontalTextPosition(JLabel.TRAILING); // Set the text position regarding its icon
label.setIcon(UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.informationIcon"));
JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane(JTabbedPane.LEFT);
tabbedPane.addTab(null, new JPanel());
tabbedPane.setTabComponentAt(0, label); // Here set the custom tab component
Screenshot 1:
Note: using this feature you can set any Component
as you wish. For instance you can make a JPanel
with a JButton
to close the tab:
final JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane(JTabbedPane.LEFT);
ActionListener actionListener = new ActionListener() {
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
JButton button = (JButton)e.getSource();
for(int i = 0; i < tabbedPane.getTabCount(); i++) {
if(SwingUtilities.isDescendingFrom(button, tabbedPane.getTabComponentAt(i))) {
tabbedPane.remove(i);
break;
}
}
}
};
JLabel label = new JLabel("Tab1", UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.informationIcon"), JLabel.RIGHT);
JButton closeButton = new JButton("X");
closeButton.addActionListener(actionListener);
JPanel tabComponent = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
tabComponent.add(label, BorderLayout.WEST);
tabComponent.add(closeButton, BorderLayout.EAST);
tabbedPane.addTab(null, new JPanel());
tabbedPane.setTabComponentAt(0, tabComponent); // Here set the custom tab component
Screenshot 2:
You might want to see this topic as well: JTabbedPane: tab placement set to LEFT but icons are not aligned