Background color to selected item in JList not working

Question

Why my selected item background not changing? I surely know that i press list item because my System.out.println says my Current selection and showing id of selected item. No errors no nothing just not working. Why ?

 Object[] tablen = sqltable.toArray();
 JList list;
 list = new JList(tablen);                     
 list.addListSelectionListener(new ListSelectionListener(){
  @Override
  public void valueChanged(ListSelectionEvent e) {
   int idx = list.getSelectedIndex();
   setOpaque(true);
    if (idx != -1){
    //list.setSelectionBackground(Color.lightGray);
    // list.setSelectionForeground(Color.lightGray);
    setForeground(Color.red);
    setBackground(Color.BLUE);
    setBackground(list.getSelectionBackground());
    setForeground(list.getSelectionForeground()); 
    System.out.println("Current selection: " + tablen[idx]);
   }else{
     setForeground(Color.red);
     setBackground(Color.BLUE);
     setBackground(list.getBackground());
     setForeground(list.getForeground());
     System.out.println("Please choose a language."); 
        }
  }                     
});
   list.setCellRenderer(new ListCellRenderer() {
   @Override
   public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list, Object value, int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus) {
     String[] val = (String[]) value;
     return new JLabel(val[0]);
    }                           
});

Answer 1

Beware in your cell renderer implementation that JLabel is non opaque by default, and probably is the reason why the background color in the list cell renderer is not painted. (see related )

On the other hand I'd take a look to Providing a Custom Renderer for a better example on how to implement a custom cell renderer.