ScrollPanes in JavaFX 8 always have gray background

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Jon Onstott picture Jon Onstott · Apr 9, 2014 · Viewed 22k times · Source

When I upgraded by JavaFX app from JavaFX 2 to JavaFX 8, I noticed that ScrollPanes always showed up as gray rectangles, even with a background color set or the background set to be transparent.

Answer

Jon Onstott picture Jon Onstott · Apr 9, 2014

I found the solution in this discussion: https://community.oracle.com/thread/3538169

First I needed this:

.scroll-pane > .viewport {
   -fx-background-color: transparent;
}

Then I could set the background color to whatever I like. In this case, I'm making all ScrollPane backgrounds transparent:

.scroll-pane {
   -fx-background-color: transparent;
}

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