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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
> 

As I wrote

JLabel questionText = new JLabel();

questionText.setText("<html> <p style=\"text-align: justify\"> " + "My 
multiline text here...");

which means that in the String is a Multi-line text!!! Of course there was 
no reason to copy all the text here (about 10 lines of text that do not mean 
anything to the newsgroup).

Katerina


"Kevin Dean [TeamB]" <NkOdSePaAnM@datadevelopment.com> wrote in message 
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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.
>

It may well be then that the "justify" option is not supported.  There's 
source for a multi-line label here that may do what you want:

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=459705&messageID=2104021
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"Katerina K." <scorpio_gemini@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:41ebdbcc@newsgroups.borland.com...
> As I wrote
>
> JLabel questionText = new JLabel();
>
> questionText.setText("<html> <p style=\"text-align: justify\"> " + "My 
> multiline text here...");
>
> which means that in the String is a Multi-line text!!! Of course there was 
> no reason to copy all the text here (about 10 lines of text that do not 
> mean anything to the newsgroup).
>
> Katerina

Swing controls (at least used to) do not calculate the right boundary 
correctly. There was a code on internet how to fix right aligned text. 
Maybe it will fix your code too.

- Alexey.