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

• Creating a TextArea
• Adding a TextArea to the Scene Graph
• Reading the Text of a TextArea
• Setting the Text of a TextArea

A JavaFX TextArea control enables users of a JavaFX application to enter text spanning multiple lines, which can then be read by the application. The JavaFX TextArea control is represented by the class javafx.scene.control.TextArea .

Creating a TextArea

You create a TextArea control by creating an instance of the TextArea class. Here is a JavaFX TextArea instantiation example:

TextArea textArea = new TextArea();

Adding a TextArea to the Scene Graph

For a JavaFX TextArea to be visible the TextArea object must be added to the scene graph. This means adding it to a Scene object, or as child of a layout which is attached to a Scene object.

Here is an example that attaches a JavaFX TextArea to the scene graph:

package com.jenkov.javafx.controls;

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


public class TextAreaExperiments extends Application  {


    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
        primaryStage.setTitle("TextArea Experiment 1");

        TextArea textArea = new TextArea();

        VBox vbox = new VBox(textArea);

        Scene scene = new Scene(vbox, 200, 100);
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();

    }

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

The result of running the above JavaFX TextArea example is an application that looks like this:

Reading the Text of a TextArea

You can read the text entered into a TextArea via its getText() method. Here is an example of reading text of a JavaFX TextArea control via its getText() method:

String text = textArea.getText();

Here is a full example that shows a TextArea and a Button and which reads the text entered into the TextArea when the button is clicked:

package com.jenkov.javafx.controls;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.TextArea;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;


public class TextAreaExperiments extends Application  {


    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
        primaryStage.setTitle("TextArea Experiment 1");

        TextArea textArea = new TextArea();

        Button button = new Button("Click to get text");
        button.setMinWidth(50);

        button.setOnAction(action -> {
            System.out.println(textArea.getText());

            textArea.setText("Clicked!");
        });

        VBox vbox = new VBox(textArea, button);

        Scene scene = new Scene(vbox, 200, 100);
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
    }

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

Setting the Text of a TextArea

You can set the text of a TextArea control via its setText() method. Here is an example of setting the text of a TextArea control via setText() :

textArea.setText("New Text");