How do I allow only individual rows to be selected in a JTable?

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How do I allow only individual rows to be selected in a JTable?

By default, multiple rows can be selected in a Table. You can change this behavior through a ListSelectionModel. Invoke the method setSelectionMode on your JTable object and set it to one of these three static final variables defined in ListSelectionModel:

MULTIPLE_INTERVAL_SELECTION: to allow multiple contiguous selection ranges
SINGLE_INTERVAL_SELECTION: to allow one contiguous selection range
SINGLE_SELECTION: to allow only one list index selection

Add a ListSelectionListener and define the behaviour in valueChanged.

Here's a working example:

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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert

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