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Cherie
Cherie

Reputation: 375

JTextArea: how to wrap text by words, not characters?

I want to avoid an output like this:

Here is some text t
hat is being wrappe
d by characters, sp
litting words in ha
lf

I am using a JTextArea, with setLineWrap(true). How can I make it wrap words, though? (Is there a way to make it only wrap when there is a space or something?)

Upvotes: 36

Views: 28298

Answers (4)

vendul0g
vendul0g

Reputation: 11

To make wrap by words like this:

JtextArea textArea = new JTextArea(8, 20);
textArea.setLineWrap(true);
textArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);

Upvotes: 1

Eliizabeth
Eliizabeth

Reputation: 31

You could just go to the properties window of the text field and check the boxes for both wrap style word and line wrap. It works like a charm

the properties window

Upvotes: 3

Anuj Mor
Anuj Mor

Reputation: 31

If you want your text is wrapped by words and not by the characters ( in other words , if you want you half word also shifts to next line

Very simple just use wrapstyleword instead of linewrap Syntax - JTextArea.setwrapstyleword(true);

Note~ It can only be used when you linewrap is already true I hope it would help.

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Upvotes: 3

EboMike
EboMike

Reputation: 77762

JTextArea.setWrapStyleWord(true)?

Upvotes: 62

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