How can I create a JTextArea with a specified width and the smallest possible height required to display all the text?

Question

In all the examples that I can find that use a JTextArea, the height & width is known before constructing the JTextArea, and if the JText

Answer 1

it uses absolute positioning based on the added component's preferred size.

Sounds like the job of a layout manager.

This requires that my JTextArea would return the correct dimensions on getPreferredSize().

JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea();
textArea.setLineWrap( true );
textArea.setWrapStyleWord( true );
textArea.setText("one two three four five six seven eight nine ten");
System.out.println("000: " + textArea.getPreferredSize());
textArea.setSize(100, 1);
System.out.println("100: " + textArea.getPreferredSize());
textArea.setSize( textArea.getPreferredSize() );