How do I set the colour of a label coloured text in Java

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How do I set the color of the text of a label   myLabel setText  Text Color  Red    myLabel       Can I have two seperate colors in one label   For example here   The  Text Color   to be black and the  Red  to be red

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One of the disadvantages of using HTML for labels is when you need to write a localizable program (which should work in several languages). You will have issues to change just the translatable text. Or you will have to put the whole HTML code into your translations which is very awkward, I would even say absurd :)

gui_en.properties:

title.text=<html>Text color: <font color='red'>red</font></html>

gui_fr.properties:

title.text=<html>Couleur du texte: <font color='red'>rouge</font></html>

gui_ru.properties:

title.text=<html>???? ??????: <font color='red'>???????</font></html>

User · Answer

For single color foreground color label setForeground Color RED   For multiple foreground colors in the same label   I would probably put two labels next to each other using a GridLayout or something  but here goes     You could use html in your label text as follows  frame add new JLabel  quot  lt html gt Text color   lt font color  red  gt red lt  font gt  lt  html gt  quot      which produces

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You can set the color of a JLabel by altering the foreground category   JLabel title   new JLabel  I love stackoverflow    JLabel CENTER    title setForeground Color white     As far as I know  the simplest way to create the two-color label you want is to simply make two labels  and make sure they get placed next to each other in the proper order

User · Answer

object setForeground Color green      any colour you wish  object being declared earlier

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JLabel label   new JLabel   Text Color  Red    label setForeground  Color red     this should work

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Just wanted to add on to what  aioobe mentioned above     In that approach you use HTML to color code your text  Though this is one of the most frequently used ways to color code the label text  but is not the most efficient way to do it     considering that fact that each label will lead to HTML being parsed  rendering  etc  If you have large UI forms to be displayed  every millisecond counts to give a good user experience   You may want to go through the below and give it a try      Jide OSS  located at https   jide-oss dev java net   is a professional open source library with a really good amount of Swing components ready to use  They have a much improved version of JLabel named StyledLabel  That component solves your problem perfectly    See if their open source licensing applies to your product or not   This component is very easy to use  If you want to see a demo of their Swing Components you can run their WebStart demo located at www jidesoft com  http   www jidesoft com products 1 4 jide demo jnlp   All of their offerings are demo d    and best part is that the StyledLabel is compared with JLabel  HTML and without  in terms of speed   -   A screenshot of the perf test can be seen at  http   img267 imageshack us img267 9113 styledlabelperformance png

[java] How do I set the colour of a label (coloured text) in Java?

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