Java BoxLayout

The BoxLayout is used to arrange the components either vertically or horizontally. For this purpose, BoxLayout provides four constants. They are as follows:

Note: BoxLayout class is found in javax.swing package.

Fields of BoxLayout class

public static final int X_AXIS
public static final int Y_AXIS
public static final int LINE_AXIS
public static final int PAGE_AXIS

Constructor of BoxLayout class

BoxLayout(Container c, int axis): creates a box layout that arranges the components with the given axis.

Example of BoxLayout class with Y-AXIS:

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class BoxLayoutExample1 extends Frame {
 Button buttons[];

 public BoxLayoutExample1 () {
   buttons = new Button [5];
  
   for (int i = 0;i<5;i++) {
      buttons[i] = new Button ("Button " + (i + 1));
      add (buttons[i]);
    }

setLayout (new BoxLayout (this, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
setSize(400,400);
setVisible(true);
}

public static void main(String args[]){
BoxLayoutExample1 b=new BoxLayoutExample1();
}
}

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Example of BoxLayout class with X-AXIS

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class BoxLayoutExample2 extends Frame {
 Button buttons[];

 public BoxLayoutExample2() {
   buttons = new Button [5];
  
   for (int i = 0;i<5;i++) {
      buttons[i] = new Button ("Button " + (i + 1));
      add (buttons[i]);
    }

setLayout (new BoxLayout(this, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
setSize(400,400);
setVisible(true);
}

public static void main(String args[]){
BoxLayoutExample2 b=new BoxLayoutExample2();
}
}

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