Stacking JPanels in the same direction

Question

I would like to stack JPanels on in the same direction. I've searched this and can't find anything. The results that show up mean "overlap".

This is what I mean:

I would like to stack the second JPanel underneath the first. When using: add(BorderLayout.NORTH) on both layouts it overlaps them.

I appreciate any help, thanks!

Answer 1

How I usually code something specific like this, I like to use the GridLayout , and set it to 2 Rows and 1 Column like so.

  //this will go with the boiler plate
 this.setlayout(new GridLayout(2,1));

This should fix the problem of the two JPanels, and you can always add more to the rows if needed.