JavaFX TilePane

Jakob Jenkov
Last update: 2016-05-23

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.

A JavaFX TilePane added to the scene graph.

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:

A JavaFX TilePane with horizontal and vertical gaps between components.

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.

Jakob Jenkov

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