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How to disable a Tab in a JTabbedPane Container with Java?
To disable a tab in a JTabbedPane container, use the setEnabledAt() method and set it to false with the index of the tab you want to disable.
Let’s first create a JTabbedPane −
JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
Now, let us disable a tab at index 2 −
tabbedPane.setEnabledAt(2, false);
The following is an example to disable a tab in a JTabbedPane Container −
Example
package my; import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; public class SwingDemo { public static void main(String args[]) { JFrame frame = new JFrame("Devices"); JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane(); JTextArea text = new JTextArea(100,100); JPanel panel1, panel2, panel3, panel4, panel5, panel6, panel7, panel8; panel1 = new JPanel(); panel2 = new JPanel(); panel2.add(text); panel3 = new JPanel(); panel4 = new JPanel(); panel5 = new JPanel(); panel6 = new JPanel(); panel7 = new JPanel(); panel8 = new JPanel(); tabbedPane.setBackground(Color.yellow); tabbedPane.setForeground(Color.black); tabbedPane.addTab("Laptop", panel1); tabbedPane.addTab("Desktop ", panel2); tabbedPane.addTab("Notebook", panel3); tabbedPane.addTab("Echo ", panel4); tabbedPane.addTab("Tablet", panel5); tabbedPane.addTab("Alexa ", panel6); tabbedPane.addTab("Notebook", panel7); tabbedPane.addTab("iPad", panel8); tabbedPane.setEnabledAt(2, false); tabbedPane.setEnabledAt(5, false); frame.add(tabbedPane); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.setSize(550,350); frame.setVisible(true); } }
The output is as follows. Here, we have disabled the tabs with index 2 and 5 −
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