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Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right

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On 12/04/13 14:12, clusardi2k@aol.com wrote:
> I have two JLabels with different lenght of text. One JLabel is below the other. I'd like to get the two "colons" in them to line-up vertically.
>
> I tried padding one with "space" characters, but that didn't line up perfectly. My guess is that certain characters have different widths.
>
> (I tried the align vertical and horizontal properties, etc but they didn't work.)
>
> Eg, In the below text of two JLabels, the addition of a space character didn't line up the two colons.
>
> Label1     My First Name:
> Label2         Last Name:
>
> Thanks,
>

Place them in a JPanel, and set a layout manager which allows you to align them. GridBagLayout will do this. Align them 
with java.awt.GridBagConstraints.EAST, or LINE_END so they are at the right of the JPanel.

The Tutorial has all the gory details: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/index.html

-- 
Nigel Wade

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How to move text within Jlabels to the right clusardi2k@aol.com - 2013-04-12 06:12 -0700
  Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2013-04-12 15:07 +0100
  Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-04-12 11:47 -0700
    Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-13 15:20 -0400
  Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-04-12 13:51 -0700
  Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2013-04-12 20:56 -0700
  Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-13 15:16 -0400

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