JMenu as a submenu???

Question

Hi all
I have a JMenu which is a submenu of another
What my problem is is I cannot change the background color of the submenu
here is the code
menuBar = new JMenuBar();
menuBar.setBackground(Color.blue);
menu = new JMenu("Menu");
menu.setBackground(Color.blue);
submenu = new JMenuItem("submenu");
submenu.setBackground(Color.blue);
item1 = new JMenuItem("item1");
item1.setBackground(Color.blue);
submenu.add(item1);
menu.add(submenu);
menuBar.add(menu);Although I change their background color to blue, the submenu is still grey, which I can't construe.
what is wrong with this simple code?
thanks

Answer 1

Here is the whole code
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class Deneme extends JFrame {
     JMenuBar menuBar;
     JMenu menu, submenu;
     JMenuItem item1, item2;
     public Deneme() {
          menuBar = new JMenuBar();
          menuBar.setBackground(Color.blue);
          menu = new JMenu("Menu");
          menu.setBackground(Color.blue);
          submenu = new JMenu("submenu");
          submenu.setBackground(Color.blue);
          item1 = new JMenuItem("item1");
          item1.setBackground(Color.blue);
          submenu.add(item1);
          menu.add(submenu);
          menuBar.add(menu);
          setJMenuBar(menuBar);
          setVisible(true);
          setSize(200, 100);
     public static void main(String[]args){
          new Deneme();
}thanks
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