Working with web content

The WebView component is a component that can render modern HTML pages. It's based on WebKit (https://webkit.org/), an open-source browser engine that is widely used.

WebView consists of two parts:

• WebView itself, which is a JavaFX node and can be used in SceneGraph
• The WebEngine class, which is responsible for all HTML and JavaScript logic

Note

Technically, there is also a third component—a rendering engine. It's not provided by WebKit and JavaFX has its own. But developers usually do not communicate with it.

Presenting web content with WebView

Let's look at a simpleWebView example:

// chapter9/web/WebViewDemo.java
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
    WebView wv = new WebView();
wv.getEngine().load("https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javafx");

    StackPane root = new StackPane(wv);
    primaryStage.setTitle("JavaFX on SO");
    primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 400, 250));
    primaryStage.show();
}

This loads and shows a page from stackoverflow.com...