JTextField : Java Glossary

JTextField

single line display of text on the screen. Sometimes you permit the user to edit it with setEditable ( true ); The equivalent in AwT is called TextField. AWT TextField has an advantage over JTextfield. Without any coding, the user can select, copy and paste, even in an unsigned Applet.

To control just what characters can go in the JTextField you can use a JFormattedTextField or JTextField. setInputVerifier.

HTML

You can embed HTML, (e.g. <u>…</u> to underline) in the text you render in a JTextField if you do a:

// allow embedded html in your rendered text
jTextField.setContentType( "text/html" );

Learning More

Sun’s Javadoc on JTextField class : available:

on the web at java.sun.com
in the current JDK 1.6.0_17 or in the old JDK 1.5.0_22 on your local Windows J: drive.

Sun’s Javadoc on JFormattedTextField class : available:

on the web at java.sun.com
in the current JDK 1.6.0_17 or in the old JDK 1.5.0_22 on your local Windows J: drive.

AWT
JEditorPane
JLabel
JTextArea
JTextPane
Swing
TextArea
TextField
ToolTip

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