make a JLabel wrap it's text by setting a max width

Question

I have a JLabel which has a lot of text on it. Is there a way to make the JLabel have a max width so that it will wrap the text to make it not exceed this width?

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Answer 1

wrapping works but not in all cases. If the parent container uses FlowLayout then it'll not work. Therefore I set it to BoxLayout. Look at this code snippet:

javax.swing.JPanel pRefundNote = new javax.swing.JPanel(); 
javax.swing.JLabel lbNote = new javax.swing.JLabel();

pRefundNote.setAlignmentX(0.0F); 
pRefundNote.setMaximumSize(new java.awt.Dimension(32767, 33)); 
pRefundNote.setLayout(new javax.swing.BoxLayout(pRefundNote, javax.swing.BoxLayout.X_AXIS)); 

lbNote.setText("Select items using Shift or Ctrl and Up/Down keys or Mouse"); 
lbNote.setVerticalAlignment(javax.swing.SwingConstants.TOP);
lbNote.setVerticalTextPosition(javax.swing.SwingConstants.TOP); 
pRefundNote.add(lbNote);

Don't add
because it'll break your text even if you enlarge your parent frame and pRefundNote container.