Can I make Swing JButtons have smaller margins?

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I prefer buttons with minimal margins, about as wide as their text caption. Is there a way to achieve that in a JButton in Swing?

What I am seeing in practice now is that even if I try to use setMaximumSize() and similar, it just ends up eating the text caption, cutting it off to the right. But it does not reduce the margins.

score 48 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 23 '09 at 19:01

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I believe setMargin is what you're looking for.

myButton.setMargin(new Insets(0, 0, 0, 0));

answered Dec 23 '09 at 19:01

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 05 '23 at 07:34

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Worth noting you can make the values for Insets -ve (EDIT: read negative). This makes things even more compact and if done carefully doesn't look unpleasant.

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answered Nov 07 '16 at 22:06

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I don't understand this answer. What do you mean? – Stefan Reich Sep 05 '17 at 17:31
You can do new Insets(0,-4,0,-4); and it makes things even smaller. – UnixNerd Sep 05 '17 at 21:16

Can I make Swing JButtons have smaller margins?

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