JavaFX 2: WebView

This is a tutorial about adding HTML content to JavaFX 2 applications. Here, we will load some web page, and display it in an embedded browser. The embedded browser component is based on WebKit, an open source web browser engine. It supports Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, Document Object Model (DOM), and HTML5.

The embedded browser enables you to perform the following tasks in your JavaFX applications:

• Render HTML content from local and remote URLs
• Execute JavaScript commands
• Perform upcalls from JavaScript to JavaFX.
• Manage web pop-up windows
• Apply effects to the embedded browser

Below you can take a look how our example will look in the end.

JavaFX 2 WebView

As can be seen from the code, it's a short and easy tutorial to follow. We will first, add our WebView browser and then load a web page with WebEngine. Below is shown the typical way to create WebView and WebEngine objects in your application.

	WebView browser = new WebView();
	WebEngine engine = browser.getEngine();
	String url = "http://zoranpavlovic.blogspot.com/";
	engine.load(url);

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Here is the  code of JavaFX 2 WebView example:

	import javafx.application.Application;
	import javafx.scene.Scene;
	import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
	import javafx.scene.web.WebEngine;
	import javafx.scene.web.WebView;
	import javafx.stage.Stage;
	public class WebViewMain extends Application {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
	Application.launch(args);
	}
	@Override
	public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
	primaryStage.setTitle("WebView test");
	WebView browser = new WebView();
	WebEngine engine = browser.getEngine();
	String url = "http://zoranpavlovic.blogspot.com/";
	engine.load(url);
	StackPane sp = new StackPane();
	sp.getChildren().add(browser);
	Scene root = new Scene(sp);
	primaryStage.setScene(root);
	primaryStage.show();
	}
	}

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