Here’s a simple demo. The main class displays a frame with a GridLayoutManager-managed panel. The panel contains a stack of JLabels with long text strings

We have a lot of IntelliJ IDEA GUI forms in our project. A few of them are broken (for years). I decided to fix it. I know it is discouraged to manually edit those XML files, but here we are. I don’t see any way around it (other than recreating those forms from scratch which is a risky and time-consuming strategy)