20. BorderPane

The BorderPane layout can be used to add 5 nodes. Here the nodes are different colored rectangles.

Usually, the nodes, will be other layouts such as VBox, HBox, or GridPane.

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package ex20;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class Ex20 extends Application {
    
    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        
        Rectangle rectTop = new Rectangle(400, 100, Color.RED);
        Rectangle rectBottom = new Rectangle(400, 100, Color.GREEN);
        Rectangle rectLeft = new Rectangle(100, 200, Color.BLUE);
        Rectangle rectRight = new Rectangle(100, 200, Color.CYAN);
        Rectangle rectCenter = new Rectangle(200, 200, Color.YELLOW);
        
        BorderPane borderPane = new BorderPane();
        borderPane.setTop(rectTop);
        borderPane.setBottom(rectBottom);
        borderPane.setCenter(rectCenter);
        borderPane.setRight(rectRight);
        borderPane.setLeft(rectLeft);
        
        Scene scene = new Scene(borderPane, 400, 400);
        
        primaryStage.setTitle("Example 20. BorderPane");
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }
}

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This is the output:

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