Placing a JLabel at a specific x,y coordinate on a JPanel

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I'm trying to place a series of JLabels at specific X and Y coordinates on a JPanel (and set its height and width, too). No matter what I do, each label winds up immediately to the right of the previous label and has the exact same size as all of the others. Right now, my Jpanel is in a Grid Layout. I've tried Absolute Layout (illegal argument exception results), Free Design (no labels appear), Flow Layout (everything just gets squeezed to the center), and a few others. Not sure what I need to do to make this work. Can anyone help? Thanks! ``` JLabel lbl1 = new JLabel("label 1"); JLabel lbl2 = new JLabel("label 2"); JLabel lbl3 = new JLabel("label 3"); JLabel lbl4 = new JLabel("label 4"); JLabel lbl5 = new JLabel("label 5"); myPanel.add(lbl1); myPanel.add(lbl2); myPanel.add(lbl3); myPanel.add(lbl4); myPanel.add(lbl5); lbl1.setLocation(27, 20); lbl2.setLocation(123, 20); lbl3.setLocation(273, 20); lbl4.setLocation(363, 20); lbl5.setLocation(453, 20); lbl1.setSize(86, 14); lbl2.setSize(…

Accepted Answer

You have to set your container's Layout to null:

```
myPanel.setLayout(null);
```

However is a good advise also to take a look at the Matisse Layout Manager, I guess it is called GroupLayout now. The main problem with absolute positioning is what happens when the window changes its size.

Placing a JLabel at a specific x,y coordinate on a JPanel

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