How to set the location of a button anywhere in JFrame?

To set location of a button anywhere a JFrame, use the setBounds() method. Let us first create a frame and a panel −

JFrame frame = new JFrame("Demo Frame");
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
frame.getContentPane();

Create a component i.e. label and set the dimensions using setBounds(). Here, you can set the location in the form of x and y coordinates and place the button anywhere in a frame −

JButton button = new JButton("Demo Button");
Dimension size = button.getPreferredSize();
button.setBounds(300, 180, size.width, size.height);

The following is an example to set the location of a button anywhere in JFrame −

Example

package my;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
public class SwingDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      JFrame frame = new JFrame("Demo Frame");
      JPanel panel = new JPanel();
      frame.getContentPane();
      JButton button = new JButton("Demo Button");
      Dimension size = button.getPreferredSize();
      button.setBounds(300, 180, size.width, size.height);
      panel.setLayout(null);
      panel.add(button);
      panel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(10, 10, 10, 10));
      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      frame.add(panel);
      frame.setSize(500, 300);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }
}

Output

Nishtha Thakur

Published on 31-May-2019 15:22:06