JTextField margin doesnt work with border

insets, java, jtextfield, margin, swing

Solution

Margin have some problem with Border, to work around the problem you can try using a CompoundBorder setting an EmptyBorder as inner border and the desired border (lineBorder in your case) as outer border.

Something like this should work :

Border line = BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.DARK_GRAY);
Border empty = new EmptyBorder(0, 20, 0, 0);
CompoundBorder border = new CompoundBorder(line, empty);
textField.setBorder(border);

Problem

I have a `JTextField` and i want to setMargin. But when i set any border, it doesn' t properly work. It' s margin function doesn't work. This is my code; ``` import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Insets; import java.io.IOException; import javax.swing.BorderFactory; import javax.swing.JOptionPane; import javax.swing.JTextField; public class ImageField { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { JTextField textField = new JTextField(); textField.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.DARK_GRAY)); textField.setMargin(new Insets(0, 20, 0, 0)); JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, textField, "", JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE); } } ``` If i commant this line, it works ``` //textField.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.DARK_GRAY)); ```

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