Set the content of the JLabel to be left-justified and top-aligned in Java

To set the text of the label component to be left-justified and top-aligned, you need to set the alignment. Set the label to be on the left and top aligned ?

JLabel label = new JLabel("Department");
label.setVerticalAlignment(JLabel.TOP);

Here, we have set the size of the label as well as the color that includes foreground and background color ?

label.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(220, 70));
label.setOpaque(true);
label.setBackground(Color.MAGENTA);
label.setForeground(Color.WHITE);

In Java, when we talk about setting the content of a JLabel to be left-justified and top-aligned, we are referring to how the text or icon within the label is positioned relative to the label's boundaries.

Left-Justified: The content starts at the left edge of the label.

Top-Aligned: The content starts at the top edge of the label.

Example to set content of label to be left and top-aligned

The following is an example to set the content of the label to be left-justified and top-aligned ?

Example

In this program, we create a simple GUI window with a JLabel and a JTextArea using Swing. The JLabel is customized with specific size, color, font, and top alignment, while the JTextArea is set with text and font. The components are added to a JFrame which results in the output.

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("Frame");
      frame.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
      JLabel label = new JLabel("Department");
      label.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(220, 70));
      label.setOpaque(true);
      label.setVerticalAlignment(JLabel.TOP);
      label.setBackground(Color.MAGENTA);
      label.setForeground(Color.WHITE);
      Font font = new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 18);
      label.setFont(font);
      JTextArea text = new JTextArea();
      text.setText("Operations");
      font = new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 14);
      text.setFont(font);
      frame.add(label);
      frame.add(text);
      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      frame.setSize(500, 300);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }
}

Output

The above program produce the following result ?