How to Write Underlined Text

Interestingly, underline is not a supported font style, i.e., you cannot say Font.UNDERLINE to draw an underlined text.

The trick is to use Graphics.drawLine() method to draw a line just below the text. Take a look at the following program:

 
// UnderlineTextDemo.java

import java.awt.*;

/** Demonstrates how to draw underlined text. */
public class UnderlineTextDemo extends Frame {

  /** The demo text. */
  public static String DEMO_TEXT =


														Shantanu Garg
														 
														
															
																
																	
																		
																			
																				
																			
																		
																		
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