Thread: Alignment issues

Code you post should be in SSCCE form, that way we know exactly what you're doing. For example, what layout are you using?

Until I see an SSCCE, I can only point you towards this tutorial: Lesson: Laying Out Components Within a Container (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing)

No. If you don't know how to post an SSCCE, that's why I provided a link that explains exactly how to do it. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions.

What do you mean? You eliminate any code that doesn't have to do with your problem, and you put it in a single compilable/runnable class so other people can simply copy and paste it into their own IDE and run it.

In your case, we'd just need a single JFrame holding a single JLabel in exactly the way you're trying to do it in your program.

Yeah, the problem is that you aren't really using layouts how you should be. Which JLabel are you trying to align? You don't even add label1 at all.

This uses a BorderLayout to get your JLabel to the top of a JPanel:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.*;
 
public class Alignment {
  protected JTabbedPane tabPane;
  public Alignment() {
    tabPane = new JTabbedPane();
 
    JLabel labelOne = new JLabel("One", JLabel.LEFT);
    JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
    panel.add(labelOne, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    tabPane.add(panel);
  }
  public static void main(String[] a) {
    JFrame f = new JFrame("Tab Demo");
    f.getContentPane().add(new Alignment().tabPane);
    f.setSize(400, 200);
    f.setVisible(true);
  }
}

You had that part right the first time.

tabPane.add(panel, "Tab One");