How to hide the controls of HTMLEditor?

Question

is it possible to hide the controls of a HTMLEditor above the actual text? (Alignment, Copy&Paste icons, stylings etc.)

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

This is a pretty old thread, but most of these answers only sort of work, especially on newer JDKs, so here is the custom HTML editor class that I wrote based on some of the concepts in this thread.

import javafx.application.Platform;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.scene.control.ToolBar;
import javafx.scene.web.HTMLEditor;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;

public class MinimalHTMLEditor extends HTMLEditor {
    public MinimalHTMLEditor() {
        super();
        customizeHtmlEditor(this);
    }

    public static void customizeHtmlEditor(final HTMLEditor editor) {
        editor.setVisible(false);
        Platform.runLater(() -> {
            ToolBar toolBar1 = (ToolBar) editor.lookup(".top-toolbar");
            ToolBar toolBar2 = (ToolBar) editor.lookup(".bottom-toolbar");

            HashSet nodesToKeep = new HashSet<>();

            nodesToKeep.add(editor.lookup(".html-editor-numbers"));
            nodesToKeep.add(editor.lookup(".html-editor-bullets"));

            nodesToKeep.add(editor.lookup(".html-editor-foreground"));
            nodesToKeep.add(editor.lookup(".html-editor-background"));

            nodesToKeep.add(editor.lookup(".html-editor-bold"));
            nodesToKeep.add(editor.lookup(".html-editor-italics"));
            nodesToKeep.add(editor.lookup(".html-editor-underline"));
            nodesToKeep.add(editor.lookup(".html-editor-strike"));

            toolBar1.getItems().removeIf(n -> !nodesToKeep.contains(n));
            toolBar2.getItems().removeIf(n -> !nodesToKeep.contains(n));

            ArrayList toCopy = new ArrayList<>();
            toCopy.addAll(toolBar2.getItems());
            toolBar2.getItems().clear();
            toolBar1.getItems().addAll(toCopy);

            toolBar2.setVisible(false);
            toolBar2.setManaged(false);

            editor.setVisible(true);
        });
    }
}