How do I put html in a JLabel in java?

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How do I use html tags in a JLabel in java?

Why is this a bad idea? Its even documented in the Swing tutorial: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/html.html — camickr, Jul 09 '11 at 15:54
it is a quite effective way of doing simple formatting in your text areas... — Randy, Jul 09 '11 at 16:02

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 09 '11 at 15:36

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To put html in a JLabel, you would make it look something like this

 JLabel label = new JLabel("<html><yourTagHere><yourOtherTagHere>this is your text</yourOtherTagHere></yourTagHere></html>");

answered Jul 09 '11 at 15:36

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james_bond · Answer 2 · 2013-08-23T01:18:39.603

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This will do the trick:

 String labelText ="<html><FONT COLOR=RED>Red</FONT> and <FONT COLOR=BLUE>Blue</FONT> Text</html>";
 JLabel coloredLabel =new JLabel(labelText);

edited Aug 23 '13 at 01:18

answered Jul 09 '11 at 15:39

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score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 01 '12 at 14:05

There are following ways

Using SetText method of JLabel Object

JLabel HTMLlabel = new JLabel().setText("<html><tag>blah blah</tag></html>");
Passing String to JLable class Constructor.

JLabel HTMLlabel = new JLabel("<html><tag>blah blah</tag></html>");
Using String and passing it to JLabel class Constructor similar to above example but using String.

String HTMLlabelStr = "<html><tag>blah blah</tag></html>"; JLabel HTMLlabel = new JLabel(HTMLlabelStr);

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 11 '13 at 01:55

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This should do the trick:

JLabel whatever =
    new JLabel("<html><something>Put Stuff Here</something></html>");

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answered Aug 11 '13 at 01:36

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 02 '15 at 01:31

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JLabel myHTMLLabel =new JLabel("<html>");
myHTMLLabel.setText("<html><font color='green'>Hello World</font>");

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answered Jan 07 '14 at 11:53

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 02 '15 at 00:41

Also you can use this with all Swing buttons, menu items, labels, text panes, editor panes, tool tips, tabbed panes etc...

JTextPane pane = new JTextPane();
pane.setContentType("text/html");

pane.setText("<html><h1>My First Heading</h1><p>My first paragraph.</p></body></html>");

How do I put html in a JLabel in java?

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