A JSplitPane is a subclass of JComponent class that allows us to arrange two components side by side horizontally or vertically in a single pane. The display areas of both components can also be adjusted at the runtime by the user. The important methods of JSplitPane are remove(), removeAll(), resetToPreferredSizes() and setDividerLocation(). A JSplitPane can generate a PropertyChangeListener interface. We can set a background color to a JSplitPane by adding two different background colors to two panels first and pass these arguments to JSplitPane constructor.
Example
import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; public class JSplitPaneColorTest extends JFrame { private JSplitPane jsp; private JPanel panel1,panel2; public JSplitPaneColorTest() { setTitle("JSplitPane Example"); panel1 = new JPanel(); panel1.setBackground(Color.lightGray); panel2 = new JPanel(); panel2.setBackground(Color.blue); jsp = new JSplitPane(JSplitPane.HORIZONTAL_SPLIT, panel1, panel2); jsp.setDividerSize(10); jsp.setResizeWeight(0.5); add(jsp); setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE); setLocationRelativeTo(null); setSize(400, 275); setVisible(true); } public static void main(String args[]) { new JSplitPaneColorTest(); } }