Change color of JTabbedPane border

Question

I'm trying to change the color of the default blue-gray border on my JTabbedPane. You can see the border circled in the image below.

I want to make this a dark gray color. I've tried using the following UIManager properties (which result in the UI in the image above):

UIManager.put("TabbedPane.background", Color.decode(Colors.FACE_BG));
UIManager.put("TabbedPane.foreground", Color.decode(Colors.FONT_WHITE));
UIManager.put("TabbedPane.opaque", true); 
UIManager.put("TabbedPane.selected", Color.decode(Colors.TABLE_SELECTION));
UIManager.put("TabbedPane.border", BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.decode(Colors.DARK_GRAY), 1));

How do I achieve this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Try

nameOfYourComponent.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.black, 1));
// the second argument is thickness