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That would probably be because "justify" typically works only on every line 
but the last one in a paragraph (try it in a word processor to see what I 
mean).  Since your text is only one line long, the "justify" option won't 
apply.

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"Katerina K." <scorpio_gemini@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hello!
> I have read that I can use HTML in components like JLabel in order to 
> change the formatting of the text.
>
> So I write something like this:
>
> JLabel questionText = new JLabel();
> questionText.setText("<html> <p style=\"text-align: justify\">  " + "My 
> multiline text here...");
>
> I expect that this will make my text "justified". Instead it looks like it 
> is "centered". I have also tried with the other possible values for 
> text-align (left, right, center) and all three of them work as expected. 
> Java seems to ignore only "justify".
> Any idea why this is happening?
>
> I am using JBuilderX Enterprise with java version 1.4.2_01-b06.
>
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Katerina
>