1. JavaFX Tutorial
2. JavaFX Overview
3. Your First JavaFX Application
4. JavaFX Stage
5. JavaFX Scene
6. JavaFX Node
7. JavaFX Properties
8. JavaFX FXML
9. JavaFX CSS Styling
10. JavaFX ImageView
11. JavaFX Text
12. JavaFX Fonts
13. JavaFX Hyperlink
14. JavaFX Label
15. JavaFX Button
16. JavaFX MenuButton
17. JavaFX SplitMenuButton
18. JavaFX ToggleButton
19. JavaFX RadioButton
20. JavaFX CheckBox
21. JavaFX ChoiceBox
22. JavaFX ComboBox
23. JavaFX ListView
24. JavaFX DatePicker
25. JavaFX ColorPicker
26. JavaFX TextField
27. JavaFX PasswordField
28. JavaFX Slider
29. JavaFX TextArea
30. JavaFX ToolBar
31. JavaFX Tooltip
32. JavaFX ProgressBar
33. JavaFX FileChooser
34. JavaFX DirectoryChooser
35. JavaFX Accordion
36. JavaFX TitledPane
37. JavaFX SplitPane
38. JavaFX TabPane
39. JavaFX ScrollPane
40. JavaFX Group
41. JavaFX Region
42. JavaFX Pane
43. JavaFX HBox
44. JavaFX VBox
45. JavaFX Separator
46. JavaFX FlowPane
47. JavaFX TilePane
48. JavaFX GridPane
49. JavaFX MenuBar
50. JavaFX ContexMenu
51. JavaFX WebView
52. JavaFX PieChart
53. JavaFX TableView
54. JavaFX TreeView
55. JavaFX TreeTableView
56. JavaFX HTMLEditor
57. JavaFX Pagination
58. JavaFX BarChart
59. JavaFX StackedBarChart
60. JavaFX ScatterChart
61. JavaFX LineChart
62. JavaFX AreaChart
63. JavaFX StackedAreaChart
64. JavaFX Color
65. JavaFX 2D
66. JavaFX Effects
67. JavaFX 3D
68. JavaFX Transformation
69. JavaFX Animation
70. JavaFX Media - JavaFX Video and Audio Support
71. JavaFX Canvas
72. JavaFX Drag and Drop
73. JavaFX Concurrency

• Create a JavaFX Pane
• Add Items to a JavaFX Pane
• Adding a JavaFX Pane to the Scene Graph

The JavaFX Pane class is a layout container which can contain other JavaFX components internally, and lay them out. Actually, the JavaFX Pane class does not actually provide any layout algorithm. The Pane class simply displays the components it contains at the locations the components themselves want to be located. In other words, the Pane class uses the layoutX and layoutY specified by its child components to determine where to display them.

The JavaFX Pane class, javafx.scene.layout.Pane, is a subclass of the JavaFX Region class, so it inherits all of the Region class functionality. That includes functionality like borders, padding, background settings etc.

Create a JavaFX Pane

You create a JavaFX Pane simply via its standard no-arg constructor. Here is an example of creating a JavaFX Pane instance:

Pane pane = new Pane();

Add Items to a JavaFX Pane

You add items JavaFX Pane by obtaining its list of children via getChildren(), and then add the items to that list. Here is an example of adding a JavaFX Label to a JavaFX Pane:

Pane  pane  = new Pane();

pane.getChildren().add(new Label("Hello Pane"));

If you repeat the last line multiple times, you will add multiple Label instances to the Pane. Just keep in mind, that unless you change the layoutX and / or layoutY properties of the added Labels, all the Label instances will be displayed in the same X and Y position - meaning on top of each other.

Adding a JavaFX Pane to the Scene Graph

Here is an example of adding a JavaFX Pane to the JavaFX scene graph - by setting the Pane as the root node of a JavaFX Scene:

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.layout.Pane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class PaneExample extends Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {

        Pane  pane  = new Pane();

        pane.getChildren().add(new Label("Hello Pane"));

        Scene scene = new Scene(pane);

        primaryStage.setScene(scene);

        primaryStage.show();
    }
}