Adding HTML Content to JavaFX Applications

Beta Draft: 2013-09-17

About This Tutorial

This tutorial introduces the JavaFX embedded browser, a user interface component that provides a web viewer and full browsing functionality through its API. The document contains the following chapters:

• What Is New

  Describes the new and changed features in the current release.

• Overview of the JavaFX WebView Component

  Lists the basic features of the WebView component and introduces classes of the javafx.scene.web package.

• Supported Features of HTML5

  Describes the HTML5 features supported by the WebView component.

• Adding a WebView Component to the Application Scene

  Provides instructions on how to embed a browser based in the WebView component into the application scene.

• Processing JavaScript Commands

  Explains how to run a particular JavaScript command for the document currently loaded into the browser.

• Making Upcalls from JavaScript to JavaFX

  Provides instructions on how to implement calling from web content to JavaFX application.

• Managing Web Pop-Up Windows

  Teaches how to use the PopupFeatures class to set an alternative WebView object for the documents that will be opened in a separate window.

• Managing Web History

  Explains how to obtain the list of visited pages by using the WebHistory class.

• Printing HTML Content

  Provides a code pattern for printing HTML content of the embedded browser.

This tutorial provides the WebViewSample application so that you better learn the features described in each chapter. By the end of your study, you will have the complete version of the WebViewSample application with all functional code fragment integrated.

You can also find the source files of the application and the corresponding NetBeans project in the Application Files section.