How to enable Scrolling Tabs in a JTabbedPane Container

To enable scrolling tabs in a JTabbedPane container, use the setTabLayoutPolicy() method −

tabbedPane.setTabLayoutPolicy(JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT);

Above, we have set the constant to be SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT, since we want the scroller to be visible when all the tabs won’t fit within a single run.

The following is an example to enable scrolling tabs 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.setTabLayoutPolicy(JTabbedPane.SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT);       frame.add(tabbedPane);       frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);       frame.setSize(400,350);       frame.setVisible(true);    } }

Output

On scrolling and pressing the right navigation, the following is visible. Rest of the tabs are visible now −