Java tutorial
import java.awt.BorderLayout; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JScrollPane; import javax.swing.JTextPane; import javax.swing.text.DefaultStyledDocument; import javax.swing.text.SimpleAttributeSet; import javax.swing.text.StyleConstants; import javax.swing.text.StyledDocument; import javax.swing.text.TabSet; import javax.swing.text.TabStop; public class TabSample { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { JFrame frame = new JFrame("Tab Attributes"); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); StyledDocument document = new DefaultStyledDocument(); //TabStop.ALIGN_CENTER, TabStop.ALIGN_DECIMAL,TabStop.ALIGN_LEFT, TabStop.ALIGN_RIGHT //"\tBAR\n", "\tCENTER\n", "\t3.14159265\n", "\tLEFT\n", "\tRIGHT\n" }; SimpleAttributeSet attributes = new SimpleAttributeSet(); TabStop tabstop = new TabStop(150, TabStop.ALIGN_BAR, TabStop.LEAD_DOTS); int position = document.getLength(); document.insertString(position, "TabStop.ALIGN_BAR", null); TabSet tabset = new TabSet(new TabStop[] { tabstop }); StyleConstants.setTabSet(attributes, tabset); document.setParagraphAttributes(position, 1, attributes, false); JTextPane textPane = new JTextPane(document); textPane.setEditable(false); JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(textPane); frame.add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER); frame.setSize(300, 150); frame.setVisible(true); } }