Java Add scroll into text area

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How can i add the scroll bar to my text area  i have tried with this code but it s not working               middlePanel new JPanel            middlePanel setBorder new TitledBorder new EtchedBorder     Display Area                 create the middle panel components          display   new JTextArea 16  58           display setEditable false      set textArea non-editable         scroll   new JScrollPane display           scroll setVerticalScrollBarPolicy ScrollPaneConstants VERTICAL SCROLLBAR ALWAYS              Add Textarea in to middle panel         middlePanel add scroll           middlePanel add display     Thanks

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Try adding these two lines to your code  I hope it will work  It worked for me     display setLineWrap true   display setWrapStyleWord true     Picture of output is shown below

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After adding JTextArea into JScrollPane here   scroll   new JScrollPane display     You don t need to add it again into other container like you do   middlePanel add display     Just remove that last line of code and it will work fine  Like this       middlePanel new JPanel        middlePanel setBorder new TitledBorder new EtchedBorder     Display Area             create the middle panel components      display   new JTextArea 16  58       display setEditable false      set textArea non-editable     scroll   new JScrollPane display       scroll setVerticalScrollBarPolicy ScrollPaneConstants VERTICAL SCROLLBAR ALWAYS          Add Textarea in to middle panel     middlePanel add scroll     JScrollPane is just another container that places scrollbars around your component when its needed and also has its own layout  All you need to do when you want to wrap anything into a scroll just pass it into JScrollPane constructor   new JScrollPane  myComponent      or set view like this   JScrollPane pane   new JScrollPane     pane getViewport    setView   myComponent      Additional   Here is fully working example since you still did not get it working   public static void main   String   args         JPanel middlePanel   new JPanel         middlePanel setBorder   new TitledBorder   new EtchedBorder      Display Area               create the middle panel components      JTextArea display   new JTextArea   16  58        display setEditable   false       set textArea non-editable     JScrollPane scroll   new JScrollPane   display        scroll setVerticalScrollBarPolicy   ScrollPaneConstants VERTICAL SCROLLBAR ALWAYS           Add Textarea in to middle panel     middlePanel add   scroll            My code     JFrame frame   new JFrame         frame add   middlePanel        frame pack         frame setLocationRelativeTo   null        frame setVisible   true        And here is what you get

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My naive assumption was that the size of scroll pane will be determined automatically     The only solution that actually worked for me was explicitly seeting bounds of JScrollPane   import javax swing     public class MyFrame extends JFrame        public MyFrame                 setBounds 100  100  491  310           getContentPane   setLayout null            JTextArea textField   new JTextArea            textField setEditable false            String str               for  int i   0  i  lt  50    i              str     Some text n           textField setText str            JScrollPane scroll   new JScrollPane textField           scroll setBounds 10  11  455  249                           lt -- THIS          getContentPane   add scroll           setLocationRelativeTo   null              Maybe it will help some future visitors

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The Easiest way to implement scrollbar using java swing is as below    Navigate to Design view right click on textArea Select surround with JScrollPane

[java] Java :Add scroll into text area

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