How to Change Background Color of Jtabbedpane

How to change background color of JTabbedPane?

Using TabComponentsDemo as an example, setBackgroundAt() seems to work:

private void initTabComponent(int i) {
    pane.setTabComponentAt(i, new ButtonTabComponent(pane));
    pane.setBackgroundAt(i, Color.getHSBColor((float)i/tabNumber, 1, 1));
}

Addendum: As @camickr helpfully observed, the target component must be opaque.

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;

/** @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8752037 */
public class TabColors extends JPanel {

    private static final int MAX = 5;
    private final JTabbedPane pane = new JTabbedPane();

    public TabColors() {
        for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) {
            Color color = Color.getHSBColor((float) i / MAX, 1, 1);
            pane.add("Tab " + String.valueOf(i), new TabContent(i, color));
            pane.setBackgroundAt(i, color);
        }
        this.add(pane);
    }

    private static class TabContent extends JPanel {

        private TabContent(int i, Color color) {
            setOpaque(true);
            setBackground(color);
            add(new JLabel("Tab content " + String.valueOf(i)));
        }

        @Override
        public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
            return new Dimension(320, 240);
        }
    }

    private void display() {
        JFrame f = new JFrame("TabColors");
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.add(this);
        f.pack();
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                new TabColors().display();
            }
        });
    }
}

Set the Background Color for JTabbedPane

There are a few different things you can do, depending upon how much control you want over the exact color. The easiest way is to change some of the properties in the UIManager to change the colors that Nimbus derives its other colors from. I played around a little with your code, and found that if I put the following code after the call to UIManager.setLookAndFeel(), it would approximate the red-on-black look you attempted in your example:

     UIManager.put("nimbusBase", new ColorUIResource(0, 0, 0));
     UIManager.put("textForeground", new ColorUIResource(255, 0, 0));

I'll leave it to you to experiment. For more information to experiment with, there is a good article on configuring Nimbus here. Be sure you look at his link titled "Nimbus UIDefaults Properties List". Outside of just massaging the colors to something similar to what you want, you'll have to start doing messy things like implementing Painter classes that do custom painting.

Colorize a tab in a JTabbedPane using java swing

• most of method for JTabbedPane is protected in the API, and not accesible from Swing methods

• have to look for Custom XxxTabbedPaneUI, override these methods, and could be accesible from outside

• correct way would be to implement Custom Look & Feel only, part of them override JTabbedPane

• example for Custom XxxTabbedPaneUI

Change the background color behind the tabs of a JTabbedPane?

OK, I figured it out. You need to specify your own custom UI.

1. You need to extend the BasicTabbedPaneUI class and override paint.
2. Then you can set the UI:

tabbedPane.setUI(new CustomTabbedUI(Color.RED));

This really old answer I dug up was partially correct. Obviously it was incomplete.

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Launcher.java

package q60855752;

import javax.swing.*;

public class Launcher {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new App());
    }
}

App.java

package q60855752;

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

public class App extends JPanel implements Runnable {
    public App() {
        super(new BorderLayout());

        JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
        tabbedPane.setUI(new CustomTabbedUI(Color.RED));

        // Modified: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/tabbedpane.html
        addPanel(tabbedPane, "Tab 1", "Panel #1", "Does nothing", KeyEvent.VK_1, null);
        addPanel(tabbedPane, "Tab 2", "Panel #2", "Does twice as much nothing", KeyEvent.VK_2, null);
        addPanel(tabbedPane, "Tab 3", "Panel #3", "Still does nothing", KeyEvent.VK_3, null);
        addPanel(tabbedPane, "Tab 4", "Panel #4", "Panel #4 (has a preferred size of 410 x 50).", KeyEvent.VK_4, new Dimension(410, 50));

        add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("App");
        frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500, 200));
        frame.setContentPane(new App());
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    protected void addPanel(JTabbedPane tabbedPane, String title, String content, String tooltip, int mnemonic, Dimension dimensions) {
        JComponent panel = createPanel(title);
        if (dimensions != null) panel.setPreferredSize(dimensions);
        tabbedPane.addTab(content, null, panel, tooltip);
        tabbedPane.setMnemonicAt(tabbedPane.getTabCount() - 1, mnemonic);
    }

    protected JComponent createPanel(String text) {
        JPanel panel = new JPanel(false);
        JLabel filler = new JLabel(text);
        filler.setHorizontalAlignment(JLabel.CENTER);
        panel.setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 1));
        panel.add(filler);
        return panel;
    }
}

CustomTabbedUI.java

package q60855752;

import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTabbedPaneUI;
import java.awt.*;

public class CustomTabbedUI extends BasicTabbedPaneUI {
    private Color backgroundColor;

    public CustomTabbedUI(Color backgroundColor) {
        super();
        this.backgroundColor = backgroundColor;
    }

    public void setBackgroundColor(Color backgroundColor) {
        this.backgroundColor = backgroundColor;
    }

    @Override
    public void paint(Graphics g, JComponent c) {
        Rectangle bounds = tabPane.getBounds();
        g.setColor(this.backgroundColor);
        g.fillRect(0, 0, bounds.width, bounds.height);

        super.paint(g, c); // Call parent...
    }
}

How can i change jtabbedpane selected tab background color

Call this UIManager.put("TabbedPane.selected", Color.Red); before initComponents();

JTabbedPanel change selected tab background color

This is worked for me

            UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().put("TabbedPane:TabbedPaneTab[Enabled].backgroundPainter", new BackgroundPainter(Color.white));
            UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().put("TabbedPane:TabbedPaneTab[Enabled+MouseOver].backgroundPainter", new BackgroundPainter(Color.white));
            UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().put("TabbedPane:TabbedPaneTab[Enabled+Pressed].backgroundPainter", new BackgroundPainter(Color.white));
            UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().put("TabbedPane:TabbedPaneTab[Focused+MouseOver+Selected].backgroundPainter", new BackgroundPainter(Color.white));
            UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().put("TabbedPane:TabbedPaneTab[Focused+Pressed+Selected].backgroundPainter", new BackgroundPainter(Color.white));
            UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().put("TabbedPane:TabbedPaneTab[Focused+Selected].backgroundPainter", new BackgroundPainter(Color.GRAY));
            UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().put("TabbedPane:TabbedPaneTab[MouseOver+Selected].backgroundPainter", new BackgroundPainter(Color.white));
            UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().put("TabbedPane:TabbedPaneTab[Pressed+Selected].backgroundPainter", new BackgroundPainter(Color.white));
            UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().put("TabbedPane:TabbedPaneTab[Selected].backgroundPainter", new BackgroundPainter(Color.white));

BackgroundPainter class

public class BackgroundPainter implements Painter<JComponent> {

  private Color color = null;

  BackgroundPainter(Color c) {
    color = c;
  }

  @Override
  public void paint(Graphics2D g, JComponent object, int width, int height) {
    if (color != null) {
        g.setColor(color);
        g.fillRect(0, 0, width - 1, height - 1);
    }
  }
}

Change Color of JTabbedPanel side view

The basic logic would be:

JPanel tab1 = new JPanel();
tab1.background( Color.RED );

JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
tabbedPane.add(tab1, "Tab1");

JPanel parent = new JPanel( new BorderLayout() );
parent.setBackground( Color.GREEN );
parent.add( tabbedPane );

frame.add( parent );

Now the area occupied by the tab will have the background color of the "parent" panel.

If this doesn't work, then you have a Look and Feel issue.

Solution
the issue was resolved after changing look and feel

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