JTextArea tab??

Question

Hi everyon in the forum,
i am adding some text to a JText Area and i was wondering if it is possible to make sometrhing like tabulation, so the text will appear in form of two columns in the right positions.
For the moment i just added the lines, but it does not work
textArea.append("\n      "+ labels[i] + "     "+ values[i] + "   \n");Thanks

Answer 1

Hi everyon in the forum,
i am adding some text to a JText Area and i was
wondering if it is possible to make sometrhing like
tabulation, so the text will appear in form of two
columns in the right positions.
For the moment i just added the lines, but it does
not work
textArea.append("\n      "+ labels[i] + "     "+
values[i] + "   \n");ThanksUse the TAB character: '\t'
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
public class TabTest {
    TabTest() {
        JFrame f = new JFrame();
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        JTextArea ta = new JTextArea();
        ta.setTabSize(10);
        ta.append("Left Column 1" + "\t" + " Right Column 1" + "\n");
        ta.append("Left Column 2" + "\t" + " Right Column 2" + "\n");
        ta.append("Left Column 3" + "\t" + " Right Column 3" + "\n");
        ta.append("Left Column 4" + "\t" + " Right Column 4" + "\n");
        ta.append("Left Column 5" + "\t" + " Right Column 5" + "\n");
        ta.append("Left Column 6" + "\t" + " Right Column 6" + "\n");
        ta.append("Left Column 7" + "\t" + " Right Column 7" + "\n");
        ta.append("Left Column 8" + "\t" + " Right Column 8" + "\n");
        ta.append("Left Column 9" + "\t" + " Right Column 9" + "\n");
        ta.append("Left Column 10" + "\t" + " Right Column 10" + "\n");
        f.add(ta);
        f.setSize(400,300);
        f.setVisible(true);
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new TabTest();
}