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 JavaFX TitledPane
• Adding the TitledPane to the JavaFX Scene Graph
• Collapse and Expand a TitledPane
• Disable Collapse

The JavaFX TitledPane control is a container control which displays its content inside a a pane (box) which at the top contains a title - hence the name TitledPane. The TitledPane control is implemented by the javafx.scene.control.TitledPane class. In this JavaFX TitledPane tutorial we will look at how to use the TitledPane control. Here is a JavaFX TitledPane screenshot showing how it looks:

A TitledPane can be collapsed so only the title bar is visible. This functionality is used inside the JavaFX Accordion control. The TitledPane can of course be expanded too. I will show how that works later in this tutorial.

Creating a JavaFX TitledPane

In order to use a JavaFX TitledPane you must first create a TitledPane instance. Here is an example of creating a JavaFX TitledPane:

Label label = new Label("The content inside the TitledPane");

TitledPane titledPane = new TitledPane("The Title", label);

Notice the second line in the code example. This is the line that creates the TitledPane instance. Notice how the title to display in the TitledPane is passed as a parameter to the constructor. Notice also, how the content to display, a JavaFX Node, is also passed as a parameter to the constructor. In this example the content is just a simple JavaFX Label.

Adding the TitledPane to the JavaFX Scene Graph

To make a JavaFX TitledPane instance visible, it must be added to a JavaFX scene graph. Here is a full example of adding a JavaFX TitledPane to a JavaFX scene graph:

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

public class TitledPaneExample extends Application {

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

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        Label label = new Label("The content inside the TitledPane");
        TitledPane titledPane = new TitledPane("The Title", label);

        Scene scene = new Scene(new VBox(titledPane));
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);

        primaryStage.show();
    }
}

Collapse and Expand a TitledPane

The user can collapse and expand a JavaFX TitledPane using the small triangle next to the title in the title bar of the TitledPane . Here is an example of how a collapsed TitledPane looks:

Notice how the content of the TitledPane is no longer visible.

It is also possible to collapse and expand a TitledPane programmatically. You do so by calling its setExpanded() method. Here is an example of expanding and collapsing a TitledPane programmatically:

titledPane.setExpanded(true);
titledPane.setExpanded(false);

Disable Collapse

It is possible to disable the collapse functionality of a JavaFX TitledPane. You do so by calling its setCollapsible() method, passing a value of false as parameter. Here is how switching off the collapsible functionality of a TitledPane looks:

Label label = new Label("The content inside the TitledPane");
TitledPane titledPane = new TitledPane("The Title", label);

titledPane.setCollapsible(false);