Learn JavaFX 17: Building User Experience and Interfaces with Java

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K. Sharan, P. SpäthLearn JavaFX 17https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7848-2_8

8. Styling Nodes

Kishori Sharan¹   and Peter Späth²

(1)

Montgomery, AL, USA

(2)

Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

 

In this chapter, you will learn:

• What a cascading style sheet is

• The difference between styles, skins, and themes

• Naming conventions of Cascading Style Sheets styles in JavaFX

• How to add style sheets to a scene

• How to use and override the default style sheet in a JavaFX application

• How to add inline styles for a node

• About the different types of cascading style sheet properties

• About cascading style sheets style selectors

• How to look up nodes in a scene graph using cascading style sheets ...