JLabel in Java Swing Example

JLabel component in swing is similar to label in AWT except that it may contain uneditable text, an image or both. We can create label by creating an instance of JLabel class.

JLabel (label) does not react to user events so you can not get the keyboard focus. It often used in combination with other components which do not have the ability to demonstrate its purpose, for example, in combination with a JTextField serve us to tell the user what we expect to enter into it.

The following table shows some methods of this class:

The JLabel class defines several methods to change the appearance of the component:

import javax.swing.*; 
 import java.awt.*; 
 class JLabelExample extends JFrame 
 { 
     JLabelExample() 
     {   
          setLayout(new FlowLayout()); 
          ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon("Check.png"); 
          JLabel lblText = new JLabel("Label with Text"); 
          JLabel lblTextIcon = new JLabel("Text and icon",icon, SwingConstants.RIGHT);  
          add(lblText); 
          add(lblTextIcon); 
      } 
 } 
  class JLabelSwingExample 
 { 
        public static void main(String args[]) 
       { 
             JLabelExample frame = new JLabelExample(); 
             frame.setTitle("JLabel in Java Swing Example"); 
             frame.setBounds(200,250,150,150); 
             frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); 
             frame.setVisible(true); 
       } 
 }