# Swing CardLayout

A CardLayout object is a layout manager for a container. It treats each component in the container as a card. Only one card is visible at a time, and the container acts as a stack of cards. The first component added to a CardLayout object is the visible component when the container is first displayed. The ordering of cards is determined by the container’s own internal ordering of its component objects. CardLayout defines a set of methods that allow an application to flip through these cards sequentially, or to show a specified card.

## Main Features

- Select CardLayout from the Layouts palette and drop it on a JFrame or JPanel

- When adding a new widget, the current drop point is highlighted in green

- Switch between cards using the up/down arrows in the upper right corner

- Horizontal and vertical margins can be specified using the Property Pane