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Java 11 Cookbook

You're reading from   Java 11 Cookbook A definitive guide to learning the key concepts of modern application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789132359
Length 802 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mohamed Sanaulla Mohamed Sanaulla
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Nick Samoylov Nick Samoylov
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installation and a Sneak Peek into Java 11 2. Fast Track to OOP - Classes and Interfaces FREE CHAPTER 3. Modular Programming 4. Going Functional 5. Streams and Pipelines 6. Database Programming 7. Concurrent and Multithreaded Programming 8. Better Management of the OS Process 9. RESTful Web Services Using Spring Boot 10. Networking 11. Memory Management and Debugging 12. The Read-Evaluate-Print Loop (REPL) Using JShell 13. Working with New Date and Time APIs 14. Testing 15. The New Way of Coding with Java 10 and Java 11 16. GUI Programming Using JavaFX 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using CSS to the style elements in JavaFX

Those from a web development background will be able to appreciate the usefulness of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and for those who are not, we will provide an overview of what they are and how they are useful, before diving into CSS application in JavaFX.

The elements or the components that you see on web pages are often styled according to the theme of the website. This styling is made possible by using a language called CSS. CSS consists of a group of name:value pairs, separated by semicolons. These name:value pairs, when associated with an HTML element, say, <button>, give it the required styling.

There are multiple ways to associate these name:value pairs to the element, the simplest being when you put this name:value pair within the style attribute of your HTML element. For example, to give the button a blue background...

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