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How to Write Underlined Text

How to Write Underlined Text

Interestingly, underline is not a supported font style, i.e., you cannotsay 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.javaimport java.awt.*;/** Demonstrates how to draw underlined text. */public class UnderlineTextDemo extends Frame {  /** The demo text. */  public static String DEMO_TEXT =

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