how to break a new line in JOptionPane.messageDialog

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dear friends i am doing a program that can display the some information using joptionpyne in java. but i don't know how to break the text to appear in more than one line
for example.
* product code: 1
* product: shoes
* unit price: 125.90
* discount: 5%
* total amount to be paid after discount: ------

i want something like this to appear
i tried........

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"..........................");
but i dont know how break it to appear in multiple line please help. THANKS!!!

Posted 4-May-13 7:17am

@sunusi1

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ZurdoDev 4-May-13 22:53pm

I don't know for sure in Java, but have you tried \r\n?

Shubhashish_Mandal 6-May-13 2:45am

Yes, I agree with you, use "\n" to add new line .

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maybe you even need to create a custom JDialog.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/dialog.html[^]

That will guide you.

Posted 6-May-13 2:24am

TorstenH.

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ZurdoDev · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-06T01:10:00

Solution 1

\n should do it. Sometime you'll need \r\n.

Posted 6-May-13 1:10am

ZurdoDev