CHAPTER 16
Browsing Web Pages
In this chapter, you will learn:
- What WebView is
- What components are used with WebView
- How to create a web browser
- How to access the browsing history
- How to execute JavaScript code from JavaFX and vice versa
- How to access the web page DOM
- How to set User-Agent HTTP headers
- How to set a user style for the web page and how to style WebView with CSS
What Is a WebView?
JavaFX provides a web component that can be used as an embedded web browser in a JavaFX application. It is based on WebKit, which is an open source web browser engine. It supports:
- Viewing HTML5 content with CSS and JavaScript
- Access to the DOM of the HTML ...
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