Hide input caret of TextField in JavaFX8

Question

I would like to hide the input caret of a TextField in JavaFX8. I already tried to set the text fill to white (my TextField has a white background), but then my user input a

Answer 1

I already found a workaround for this, and I want to share this with you of course. If anyone else wants to hide the caret until user input, you can use this:

I have created a change listener, which changes the text color on user input.

textfield.textProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener(){

        @Override
        public void changed(ObservableValue observable,
                String oldValue, String newValue) {

            if (!textfield.getText().trim().isEmpty()) {
                textfield.setStyle("-fx-text-fill: black");
            } else {
                textfield.setStyle("-fx-text-fill: white");
            }

        }

});

Make sure the text fill is white on startup, I did this in the css file of my FXML:

#textfield {
    -fx-text-fill: white;
}

Sorry for bothering you all with this question. However, this subject is not greatly discussed online, so I hope it could be useful for some of you.