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Asked: 2026-06-02T17:10:09+00:00

I have a JLabel with text in it, and I want to append another

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I have a JLabel with text in it, and I want to append another piece of text to it, but the latter will be of a different color than the former (e.g. red). I’ve tried:

statusLabel.setText(statusLabel.getText() +
  " <html><span style\"color: red\">" + message + "</span></html>");

But it doesn’t work. It just shows the HTML tags but does not render them. Any suggestions? Is it possible to change the color of some of the text in a JLabel?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try this:

    setText("<html>Some text <font color='red'>some text in red</font></html>");

    Or for you case you can build the string like this: 

    statusLabel.setText(String.format("<html>%s<font color='red'>%s</font></html>", 
        statusLabel.getText(), message));
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