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

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.

Solution

  • 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("<html>Text color: <font color='red'>red</font></html>"));

    which produces:

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