[SOLVED] How do you align/justify idividual table column header text?

[Angie]

If I have a JTable with 3 columns where the headers are "ID", "IN STOCK", "QUANTITY" and I want to individually align each header different.

I would like "ID" header to be left aligned, "IN STOCK" header to be center aligned and "QUANTITY" header to be right aligned, how do I do that?

I found the following code:

TableCellRenderer renderer = table().getTableHeader().getDefaultRenderer();
JLabel label = (JLabel)renderer;
label.setHorizontalAlignment(JLabel.LEFT);

but it causes all table column header text to be aligned.

[markw8500]

This was extremely harder than I thought it would be... Check out:

ToolTip Table : Grid Table*«*Swing Components*«*Java

You want to use the MultiLineHeaderRenderer... Then do this:

        TableColumn column = table().getColumnModel().getColumn(1);
        MultiLineHeaderRenderer headerRenderer = new MultiLineHeaderRenderer(
        SwingConstants.LEFT, SwingConstants.BOTTOM);
        column.setHeaderRenderer(headerRenderer);

Let me know if you get stuck...

[Angie]

That was a good learning experience for me... Thank you once again markw8500!!! :)

[markw8500]

No Prob...

[FALL3N]

is there some package I need to import or something?

Im getting an error that says:
cannot find symbol:
class MultiLineHeaderRenderer