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

• Full JavaFX SplitPane Example
• Create a SplitPane
• Adding Controls to the SplitPane
  • Adding More Than Two Controls to a SplitPane

The JavaFX SplitPane is a container control that can contain multiple other components inside it. In other words, the SplitPane is split between the controls it contains. Between the controls in the SplitPane is a divider. The user can move the divider to set how much space is allocated to each control. Here is a screenshot of a JavaFX SplitPane:

Full JavaFX SplitPane Example

The JavaFX SplitPane is represented by the JavaFX class javafx.scene.control.SplitPane. Here is a full JavaFX SplitPane example so you can get an idea about how using it looks:

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

public class SplitPaneExample extends Application {

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

    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {

        SplitPane splitPane = new SplitPane();

        VBox leftControl  = new VBox(new Label("Left Control"));
        VBox rightControl = new VBox(new Label("Right Control"));

        splitPane.getItems().addAll(leftControl, rightControl);

        Scene scene = new Scene(splitPane);

        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.setTitle("JavaFX App");

        primaryStage.show();
    }
}

Create a SplitPane

Before you can use a JavaFX SplitPlane you must first create a SplitPane instance. Here is an example of creating a JavaFX SplitPane:

SplitPane splitPane = new SplitPane();

Adding Controls to the SplitPane

In order to show anything inside the JavaFX SplitPane you must add some JavaFX controls to it. You do so via the SplitPane getItems().add(...) method. Here is an example of adding two controls to a JavaFX SplitPane:

SplitPane splitPane = new SplitPane();

VBox leftControl  = new VBox(new Label("Left Control"));
VBox rightControl = new VBox(new Label("Right Control"));

splitPane.getItems().addAll(leftControl, rightControl);

Adding More Than Two Controls to a SplitPane

You can add more than two controls to a JavaFX SplitPane. If you do, there will be a divider in-between each two controls. Here is a Java code example of adding 3 controls to a JavaFX SplitPane:

SplitPane splitPane = new SplitPane();

VBox leftControl  = new VBox(new Label("Left Control"));
VBox midControl   = new VBox(new Label("Mid Control"));
VBox rightControl = new VBox(new Label("Right Control"));

splitPane.getItems().addAll(leftControl, midControl, rightControl);

Scene scene = new Scene(splitPane);

primaryStage.setScene(scene);
primaryStage.setTitle("JavaFX App");

primaryStage.show();

Here is a screenshot of how such a SplitPane with 3 controls added looks: