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Aly
Aly

Reputation: 16285

can JLabel have img tags

I am trying to display a JLabel which has a few lines of text and an image as follows:

String html = "<html> hello </br> <img src = \"/absolute/path/here\" height = \"30\"  width =\"40\"/> </html>";
JLabel l = new JLabel(html);

For the image all I get is a broken image, is it possible to nest img tags inside a JLabel?

EDIT: I want to add multiple images to the JLabel so I don't think the use of an ImageIcon will do here.

Thanks

Upvotes: 6

Views: 7813

Answers (7)

Stefan Reich
Stefan Reich

Reputation: 1110

The above approaches don't seem to work anymore.

It seems that you now have to use an actual URI in the img tag.

Things work for me with "<img src=\"" + new File(...).toURI() + "\">".

Upvotes: 1

daredesm
daredesm

Reputation: 615

File f = new File("C:\image.jpg"); 
jLabel1.setText("<html><img src=\"file:"+f.toString()+"\">");

This works for me. It's simple and gives possibility to put any number of images you want, not just one image icon. It's not working without quotation marks.

Upvotes: 6

Kris
Kris

Reputation: 14468

Rather then try to have multiple images on a single JLabel why not simply have many JLabels, each with one image (as uthark described) and then group all the labels together on a single JPanel. That should give you the effect you are looking for with only minimal additional complexity.

Upvotes: 1

brian_d
brian_d

Reputation: 11395

For the image all I get is a broken image, is it possible to nest img tags inside a JLabel

It is possible to display image(s) in a JLabel's text. You are getting broken images because the path is not correct. You need to either prefix your path with file: or preferably get java to do it for you with class.getResource("/your/path"). Here is a working example, just insert valid resource paths.

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel; 

public class MultipleImagesExample
{

  public static void main(String[] args)
  {

      JFrame frame = new JFrame();
      frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
      JLabel label = new JLabel(
          "<html>"
          + "<img src=\""
          + MultipleImagesExample.class.getResource("/resource/path/to/image1")
          + "\">"
          + "<img src=\""
          + MultipleImagesExample.class.getResource("/resource/path/to/image2")
          + "\">"
          + "The text</html>");
      frame.add(label, BorderLayout.CENTER);
      frame.setBounds(100, 100, 200, 100);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }

 }

For more complex HTML in java, I recommend xhtmlrenderer.

Upvotes: 5

Frederik
Frederik

Reputation: 14566

Unless you're happy with JEditorPane, you're basically looking at a full webbrowser inside of Swing.

Ideally, you would use JWebPane which would be a WebKit view as a Swing component, but it isn't out yet. The most recent information I could find was this blog post.

The DJ project allows embedding the platform's native browser in Swing. It uses Internet Explorer on Windows and XULRunner on Linux. It does not have any support for Mac.

Upvotes: 2

uthark
uthark

Reputation: 5363

Embedded images are not supported in the HTML. Thus, you have to use setIcon or supply an ImageIcon to the JLabel constructor; the HTML cannot have an IMG tag. 

  JLabel imageLabel =
  new JLabel(labelText,
             new ImageIcon("path/to/image.gif"),
             JLabel.CENTER);

In your case you need to use JTextPane to display HTML. See tutorial here

Upvotes: 0

camickr
camickr

Reputation: 324197

Use a JEditorPane to display the HTML. You can change the background, forground, font etc so it looks like a label.

Upvotes: 1

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