Q:

JLabel not showing in inner JPanel

Why does my Inner JPanel not display my JLabel text? 
I have an outer JPanel, and an inner JPanel to display some text with the right dimensions.  However I don't understand why it won't show? 
                JPanel jp = new JPanel();
                jp.setBackground(Color.decode("#ffffff"));
                jp.setBounds(0, 35, 400, 315);

                JPanel mostInner = new JPanel();
                mostInner.setForeground(Color.black);
                mostInner.setBounds(207, 5, 190, 240);
                jp.add(mostInner);

                JLabel jltxt = new JLabel();
                jltxt.setText("Test");

                mostInner.add(jltxt);

A:

As already mentioned by Hovercraft Full Of Eels, you can help us to help you by adding a small program to your question that shows your problem (see https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for more information).  Then people can try to reproduce and solve the issue. 
When I created a small program myself, it seemed to work fine:

import java.awt.*; 
import javax.swing.*; 

public class LabelNotVisible {
    public static void main(String[] arguments) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(() -> new LabelNotVisible().createAndShowGui());
    }

    private void createAndShowGui() {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Stack Overflow");
        frame.setBounds(100, 100, 800, 200);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants. EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        JPanel jp = new JPanel();
        jp.setBackground(Color.decode("#ffffff"));
        //jp.setBounds(0, 35, 400, 315);

        JPanel mostInner = new JPanel();
        mostInner.setForeground(Color.black);
        //mostInner.setBounds(207, 5, 190, 240);
        jp.add(mostInner);

        JLabel jltxt = new JLabel();
        jltxt.setText("Test");

        mostInner.add(jltxt);

        frame.getContentPane().add(jp);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
}

