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Are you new to JavaFX? Find out what it's all about with the document entitled Develop Expressive Content with the JavaFX Platform at javafx.com. Before you start to work with the how-to's, you might also want to try some of the beginning tutorials that show you the basics of the JavaFX Script programming language and GUI concepts in JavaFX technology. See the Tutorials page.

Browsing the How-To's

The how-to's are organized into categories that match the stages of JavaFX application development. These categories can help you narrow your scope when you are browsing for a topic.

Searching the How-To's

If you search the page for keywords and fail to obtain a match, try searching for a more general keyword in the category. For example, if you fail to obtain a match for "font" or "bold," trying searching for "text." Some topics, such as the topic on working with text, contain a number of subtopics that might have the answer to your question.

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If you can't find a topic question that you want the answer to, please suggest it in the Comments section at the end of this topic.

Anatomy of a How-To Page

Most topics contain the following information:

A description of the solution to the question
A simple code example in the JavaFX Script programming language, which you can copy and paste into your application and modify to suit your purposes
Links that point to other tutorials and examples related to the topic
Links to the API documentation that is related to the topic

Example code required to answer the question might be too long. For instance, the example code for the advanced topics on creating rich Internet application (RIA) components would be quite lengthy. In that case, no example code is provided, but you can follow the links to see other documents that contain relevant code.

Some how-to topics contain more than one solution. Some how-topics are general topics that include subtopics with more specific questions. In general, topics that start with "How do I work with..." contain subtopics. For example, the topic How do I work with shapes? contains a number of subtopics about how to create specific shapes.

Example Code and Code Snippets in the How-To's

Some of the code examples contain a small but complete application, including the import statements. Other code examples contain only code snippets, which must be placed into an application. See the related links to learn more about building JavaFX applications.