JavaFX HBox Alignment

Question

I\'ve been working on a software using JavaFX and I have a stupid but worrying problem.

In certain part of the code I have a HBox, and, inside of it three

Answer 1

This is a most common alignment issue when you want to place an item towards the two corners of the Layout.

Let us say you want to have :

HBox
  |
  ImageView (Left)
  Label (Center)
  VBox (Right)

I very simple solution is to use two extra Regions. One in between ImageView & Label. The other in between Label and VBox.

HBox
  |
  ImageView (Left)
  Region
  Label (Center)
  Region
  VBox (Right)

These Regions must have HGrow set as Priority.Always, so that if you resize the HBox, these two will grow, keeping the other elements intact in their location.

FXML example :

Please note the HBox.hgrow="ALWAYS" in both the Regions.

Output