I am having an issue with JScrollPanes and JTextArea objects and getting them to work together.

If I just add a JTextArea to my JPanel, it works fine and shows up where I tell it to. However, if I change the contentPane.add(textArea) to contentPane.add(new JScrollPane(textArea)), the textArea is not longer visible and there is no sign of the textarea either.

Here is my code:

public docToolGUI() {

        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setBounds(100, 100, 611, 487);
        contentPane = new JPanel();
        contentPane.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(5, 5, 5, 5));
        setContentPane(contentPane);
        contentPane.setLayout(null);

        textField = new JTextField();
        textField.setBounds(253, 323, 86, 20);
        contentPane.add(textField);
        textField.setColumns(10);

        JLabel lblEnterRootDirectory = new JLabel("Enter Root Directory");
        lblEnterRootDirectory.setBounds(253, 293, 127, 20);
        contentPane.add(lblEnterRootDirectory);

        JButton btnGo = new JButton("Go");
        btnGo.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
            @Override
            public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent arg0) {
                new ToolWorker().execute();
            }
        });
        btnGo.setBounds(253, 361, 89, 23);
        contentPane.add(btnGo);

        textArea = new JTextArea();
        textArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
        textArea.setEditable(false);
        textArea.setBounds(25, 11, 560, 276);
        contentPane.add(new JScrollPane(textArea));




    }