a jpanel within a jpanel

Hello everyone,
I have a desktop application project in which I added buttons with functionalities to it. So, they all are contained in a single JPanel, now whenever I push a certain, I have a further data to gather from the user, In that JPanel where the button is located, I have inserted another JPanel where I want my respective fields to be displayed according to the button I pressed in the main JPanel.....

Now, my problem is that I cannot get to display that inner JPanel that I have made separately as a class,
In my main JPanel where my buttons are located I have written an 'actionPerformed' function for that button so that I can add the respective new JPanel...

Code:

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EditProfile editprofile = new EditProfile(); // editprofile is the JPanel I want to add in the main JPanel
editprofile.setVisible(true);
this.innerPanel.add(editprofile); // innerpanel is the panel where my respecitve panels that I want to add will be displayed
this.innerPanel.validate();
this.innerPanel.repaint();
this.validate(); // this is the Panel where my buttons are located
this.repaint();

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When I execute the code, and click on the respective button, the inner JPanel(EditProfile) does'nt display itself....
Can someone help me what I am doing wrong here???
Thanks for the help.

This is possibly a layout issue -- that you're adding the new component to a container whose layout doesn't play nice with adding things like this -- but it's difficult to tell based on what you've posted. Better to create a small compilable and runnable program that demonstrates your problem, an SSCCE, and posting it here.

Also, there's no rule against using correct capitalization in the subject line. Please do so in future.

db