Setting font color of disabled button with HTML tag. (original) (raw)

Alexander Thaller alex.t at gmx.at
Mon Sep 3 11:32:03 UTC 2012

Hi. I have a JButton with multiple lines of text where I can change the color of a part of the text by html tag . I now wanted to change the font color of a disabled button with tag too, but this only works with Java 6 but NOT with Java 7. See below for an example code that simply creates a JFrame and places 2 Buttons inside, one is enabled the other is disabled. Changing the text color of the disabled button with is only possible with Java 6. See http://imgur.com/E48le,XRppa#0 for a screenshot of Java 6 and http://imgur.com/E48le,XRppa#1 for Java 7. It seems like the UIManger property for color of disabled text is overriding the HTML color information in Java 7 but not in Java 6. Is this difference between the two versions wanted and how can I change the font color of part of the text of a disabled JButton with Java 7? P.S. My OS is Windows 7 64 Bit and Java versions are 1.6.0_20 and 1.7.0_07

import javax.swing.*; public class ButDisColorchange { public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame f=new JFrame(); f.setSize(300,200); JButton bEnabled= new JButton("<font color="green">This is an ENABLED Button"); JButton bDisabled= new JButton("<font color="red">This is an DISABLED Button"); bDisabled.setEnabled(false); JPanel pane= new JPanel(); pane.add(bEnabled); pane.add(bDisabled); f.add(pane); f.setVisible(true); } }

More information about the swing-dev mailing list