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Taseen A
Taseen A

Reputation: 49

How to extend the height of a TextField in JavaFX

I want to make the height of my TextField much bigger (it should take up almost half the screen). I am using this code:

 concordText = new TextField("");
 concordText.setPrefHeight(400);
 concordText.setPrefWidth(80);

This does increase the size of the TextField, but the text starts from the middle (as shown in the picture). How do I make it start from the beginning of the text?

screenshot

Upvotes: 0

Views: 536

Answers (1)

Zephyr
Zephyr

Reputation: 10253

Since a TextField is only meant for a single line of text, you want to use a TextArea instead.

In order to make the TextArea extend to vertically to fill its available space, wrap it in a VBox and set the VGrow priority accordingly:

TextArea textArea = new TextArea();
VBox.setVgrow(textArea, Priority.ALWAYS);

Upvotes: 3

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