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How to make two checkboxes sit next to each other in Swing?

I have two JCheckBox's and one JEditorPane. I am looking for an output as under

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But my current code is somewhat messy for which I am not able to 

private void createContents()
  {    
    JEditorPane  license;
    JCheckBox confirmBox;
    JCheckBox declineBox;   

    license = new JEditorPane("text/html", "");
    license.setText (buildEulaText());
    license.setEditable(false);   
    confirmBox = new JCheckBox("I accept.", false); 
    declineBox = new JCheckBox("I decline.", false); 
    add(license, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    add(confirmBox, BorderLayout.SOUTH); 
    add(declineBox, BorderLayout.NORTH);   //I know this is wrong 
  }
Solution

  • A simple solution is to compose the layouts using a new JPanel with a FlowLayout. 

    add(license, BorderLayout.CENTER);
JPanel boxes = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
// FlowLayout is the JPanel default layout manager, so
// boxes = new JPanel(); works too :)
boxes.add(confirmBox);
boxes.add(declineBox);
add(boxes, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

    But you can also take a look at the GridBagLayout.