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CardLayout

The card layout manager treats each component in the container as a card. Only one card is visible at a time. The container acts as a stack of cards. The first component added to a CardLayout object is the visible component when the container is first displayed.

CardLayout is part of the standard Java distribution.

Layout properties

A container with this layout manager has following layout properties:

Property Name Description
horizontal gap The horizontal gap at the left and right edges. Default is 0.
vertical gap The vertical gap at the top and bottom edges. Default is 0.

Constraints properties

A component contained in a container with this layout manager has following constraints properties:

Property Name Description
Card Name Identifier that can be used to make a card visible. See API documentation for CardLayout.show(Container, String).

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