How to use a hover feature to make a vBox visible?

Question

I am currently trying to add a hover feature for our filters tab. Currently, our filters tab is only accessed after the user clicks on the filters button. However, I would like to make the filters tab show after the user simply hovers over the filters button. After some research, I think it might have something to do with CSS but I am not 100% certain about that. Anything would help right now!

Comments

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Answer 1

First, you'll need to set up your JavaFX scene with a button and a panel (or any container) for your filters.

Button filtersButton = new Button("Filters");
filtersButton.setId("filters-button"); // Set an ID for CSS targeting

VBox filtersContent = new VBox();
filtersContent.setId("filters-content");
filtersContent.setVisible(false); // Initially hidden

// Add filters to filtersContent VBox here, make filtersContent visible when filtersButton is hovered over
filtersButton.setOnMouseEntered(e -> filtersContent.setVisible(true));
filtersButton.setOnMouseExited(e -> filtersContent.setVisible(false));

Then CSS

filters-button {

/* Button styling */

}

filters-content {

/* Filters styling */
/* You can add transitions for smooth appearance */
-fx-transition: all 0.3s ease;

}

Additionally you have to link the javafx to the css
scene.getStylesheets().add("style.css");

Comments

Thank you, I will try this!

Answer 2

You maybe able to use Tooltip. Our team implemented hover feature simply with Tooltip.
This the documenation, you can check out: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/control/Tooltip.html