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JavaFx how to align only one column-header in tableview?

How to align title of only one column in tableview?
The following css aligns all column-header but I want to align just one column:

.table-view .column-header .label{
    -fx-alignment:CENTER
}
Solution

  • You can do that now with recent versions of JavaFX.

    Java 1.7

    This worked for me with Java: 1.7.0_45 / JavaFX: 2.2.45-b18). It should be a recent version because it requires RT-14909

    The column-header will automatically get the same "Id" as the TableColumn! Therefore your TableColumn(s) need an (CSS-) Id that you can either set in Scenebuilder for the TableColumn directly or use some code like tableColumn.setId("my-special-column").

    Then you can style the column-header directly using the Id:

    .table-view .column-header#my-special-column .label {
  -fx-alignment: CENTER_RIGHT;
  -fx-text-fill: red;
}

    PS: This took me some frustrating 1,5 hours to figure out. Hope this helps others now!

    Java 8

    For reasons that I don't understand the id trick does not work for Java 8 anymore. However, what we can do is to set a styleClass for the column directly (which internally is propagated to the TableColumnHeader) and change this styleClass in the css file:

    In Java:

    firstNameCol.getStyleClass().add("my-special-column-style");

    And in CSS:

    .my-special-column-style .label {
  -fx-alignment: CENTER_RIGHT;
  -fx-text-fill: red;
}

    Works for me here with jdk1.8.0_05 on Mac OS X.