To set the alignment of the label’s content along the Y axis on the top, use the setVerticalAlignment() method and set the location. Let us first set a label component. We have set the label background color as well so that we can check the alignment of the label’s content properly −
JLabel label = new JLabel("Favourite Movie"); label.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(190, 100)); label.setOpaque(true); label.setBackground(Color.GREEN); label.setForeground(Color.WHITE);
Now, we will align the label content along the Y axis on the top by seeting location as TOP −
label.setVerticalAlignment(JLabel.TOP);
The following is an example to set the alignment of the JLabel content along the Y axis on the top −
package my; import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Dimension; import java.awt.FlowLayout; import java.awt.Font; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JTextArea; import javax.swing.WindowConstants; public class SwingDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame frame = new JFrame("Demo Frame"); frame.setLayout(new FlowLayout()); JLabel label = new JLabel("Favourite Movie"); label.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(190, 100)); label.setOpaque(true); label.setBackground(Color.GREEN); label.setForeground(Color.WHITE); Font font = new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 14); label.setFont(font); label.setVerticalAlignment(JLabel.TOP); JTextArea text = new JTextArea(); text.setText("Saving Mr. Banks"); font = new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 13); text.setFont(font); frame.add(label); frame.add(text); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.setSize(500, 300); frame.setVisible(true); } }