Introduction
Textrarea’s are used to enter text. In opposite to normal text fields, TextArea’s can have multiple lines and usually contain a scroll bar for the user to scroll trough the text. The JTextArea is the Java Swing Component used to display a TextArea in Java.
The example below shows how to create one:
// Create a text area with some initial text JTextArea textarea = new JTextArea("Initial Text"); // Create a text area with some initial text and // a default number of rows and columns. // This number of rows and columns controls the // preferred width and height of the component; // each row and column is rougly the size of an M // in the current font. int rows = 20; int cols = 30; textarea = new JTextArea("Initial Text", rows, cols);