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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 2198

Center text in GridPane

I am a beginner at Java and I have just recently started to take a look at GUI and JavaFX. And at the moment I am stuck trying to center a text inside a GridPane and would need som help with this, and an explaination to what I am doing wrong.

This is my code:

GridPane grid = new GridPane();
grid.setMinSize(100, 100);

Text text = new Text("Hello World!");
text.setTextAlignment(TextAlignment.CENTER);
grid.add(text, 0, 1);
grid.setStyle("-fx-background-color: #D8BFD8;");

This is not working (the text does not center), so I asume I am doing something wrong. But I cant understand what I am doing wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4340

Answers (1)

Benjamin Lowry
Benjamin Lowry

Reputation: 3789

I would use Labels instead of Text, that way you can set the horizontal alignment:

Label label = new Label("Hello World!");
gridpane.add(label, 0, 1);
GridPane.setHalignment(label, HPos.CENTER);

Upvotes: 4

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