JavaFX how to get menubar to fit to parent in width only?

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j will picture j will · Oct 13, 2013 · Viewed 22.8k times · Source

I am using Scene Builder to create my GUI and my menu bar isn't resizing to the parent. How do i get it to do this?

When I try Modify -> Fit to Parent, the menu bar takes up the whole root pane, and obviously this isn't what i want. Here is an image of what i am talking about:

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As you can see, the menu bar doesn't fully extend to the end of the window.

Answer

Juan Carlos Sanchez picture Juan Carlos Sanchez · Sep 12, 2015

You need to bind the preferred width property of your menu bar to the width of your stage or some other container node. It works when you dynamically resize too.

menuBar.prefWidthProperty().bind(primaryStage.widthProperty());

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