JavaFX BorderPane

BorderPane arranges the nodes at the left, right, centre, top and bottom of the screen. It is represented by javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane class. This class provides various methods like setRight(), setLeft(), setCenter(), setBottom() and setTop() which are used to set the position for the specified nodes. We need to instantiate BorderPane class to create the BorderPane layout.

Properties

The properties of BorderPane class along with their setter methods are given in the table below.

Type	Property	Setter Methods	Description
Node	Bottom	setBottom()	Add the node to the bottom of the screen
Node	Centre	setCentre()	Add the node to the centre of the screen
Node	Left	setLeft()	Add the node to the left of the screen
Node	Right	setRight()	Add the node to the right of the screen
Node	Top	setTop()	Add the node to the top of the screen

Constructors

There are the following constructors in the class.

BorderPane() : create the empty layout
BorderPane(Node Center) : create the layout with the center node
BorderPane(Node Center, Node top, Node right, Node bottom, Node left) : create the layout with all the nodes

Example

package application;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.layout.*;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class Label_Test extends Application {

	@Override
	public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
		BorderPane BPane = new BorderPane();
		BPane.setTop(new Label("This will be at the top"));
		BPane.setLeft(new Label("This will be at the left"));
		BPane.setRight(new Label("This will be at the Right"));
		BPane.setCenter(new Label("This will be at the Centre"));
		BPane.setBottom(new Label("This will be at the bottom"));
		Scene scene = new Scene(BPane,600,400);
		primaryStage.setScene(scene);
		primaryStage.show();
	}
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		launch(args);
	}
	
}