IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 Web Help

The Surround With feature is available in the GUI Designer, as well is in the editor. In the GUI Designer, you can wrap a container of your choice around one or more components, and remove wrapping.

To wrap a container around components
  1. Select one or more components in the Form Workspace, or in the Components tree view.
  2. On the context menu of the selection, choose Surround with, or press Ctrl+Alt+TCommand Alt T.
  3. In the Surround With popup menu, click the desired container, or press the corresponding numeric key.

    surroundWithContainer

Tip

When reasonable, IntelliJ IDEA smartly suggests you to wrap a component into a container. This is done with the help of intention action. For example, IntelliJ IDEA suggests to wrap a JList into a JScrollPane:

intentionActionWrap

To unwrap components from the surrounding container
  1. Right-click container node in the Components tree view.
  2. On the context menu, choose Flatten.

    unwrap

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