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 TilePane
• Adding Children to a TilePane
• Adding a TilePane to the Scene Graph
• Horizontal and Vertical Spacing

A JavaFX TilePane is a layout component which lays out its child components in a grid of equally sized cells. The JavaFX TilePane layout component is represented by the class javafx.scene.layout.TilePane

Creating a TilePane

You create a JavaFX TilePane via its constructor. Here is a JavaFX TilePane instantiation example:

TilePane tilePane = new TilePane();

Adding Children to a TilePane

You can add children to a TilePane by obtaining its child collection and add adding the components to it you want the TilePane to layout. Here is an example of adding 6 buttons to a TilePane:

primaryStage.setTitle("TilePane Experiment");

Button button1 = new Button("Button 1");
Button button2 = new Button("Button Number 2");
Button button3 = new Button("Button No 3");
Button button4 = new Button("Button No 4");
Button button5 = new Button("Button 5");
Button button6 = new Button("Button Number 6");

TilePane tilePane = new TilePane();

tilePane.getChildren().add(button1);
tilePane.getChildren().add(button2);
tilePane.getChildren().add(button3);
tilePane.getChildren().add(button4);
tilePane.getChildren().add(button5);
tilePane.getChildren().add(button6);

tilePane.setTileAlignment(Pos.TOP_LEFT);

Adding a TilePane to the Scene Graph

To make a TilePane visible you must add it to the JavaFX scene graph. To do so you must add the TilePane instance to a Scene object, or add the TilePane to a layout component which is added to a Scene object.

Here is an example of adding a JavaFX TilePane to the scene graph:

package com.jenkov.javafx.layouts;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.geometry.Pos;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.layout.TilePane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;


public class TilePaneExperiments extends Application  {


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

        Button button1 = new Button("Button 1");
        Button button2 = new Button("Button Number 2");
        Button button3 = new Button("Button No 3");
        Button button4 = new Button("Button No 4");
        Button button5 = new Button("Button 5");
        Button button6 = new Button("Button Number 6");

        TilePane tilePane = new TilePane();

        tilePane.getChildren().add(button1);
        tilePane.getChildren().add(button2);
        tilePane.getChildren().add(button3);
        tilePane.getChildren().add(button4);
        tilePane.getChildren().add(button5);
        tilePane.getChildren().add(button6);

        tilePane.setTileAlignment(Pos.TOP_LEFT);

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

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

The application resulting from this application looks like the following screen shots.

Horizontal and Vertical Spacing

You can set the horizontal and vertical spacing between the components shown inside a JavaFX TilePane using its setHGap() and setVGap() methods. Here is an example that shows how to set the horizontal and vertical gap between components in a TilePane :

tilePane.setHgap(10);
tilePane.setVgap(10);

When added to the example earlier, the resulting application would look like this:

Notice the horizontal and vertical gaps between the buttons. If there were no gaps set on the TilePane the buttons would have been positioned next to each other.