Setting text size inside of a Button

Question

I figured I could create a label, use setFont(new Font(...)), then create a button and use .getText() inside of the Button but it still looks like default fonts etc.

How would I correctly set the font of text inside of a Button?

Label startLabel = new Label("Start");
startLabel.setFont(new Font(26));
start = new Button(startL.getText());

I figured that would work, but it stayed the same as before.

• James_D: Can you post some code? It's really unclear what you mean. What's the relationship between the label and the button?
• zzzzzz: There's not really any code to post. Okay, so you know how you can create a Label then use .setFont(double size) to edit the size of the text. Well I was wondering if it would be possible to do that with the text inside of a Button.
• James_D: Well of course it is.
• zzzzzz: But how? I guess I should've said that instead of saying is it possible.
• James_D: Exactly the same way. If you have tried it, post your attempted code and explain what goes wrong. If you haven't tried it, why are you posting here?

Answer 1

You need

start = new Button("Start");
start.setFont(new Font(26));

You don't need to create a Label unless you actually need a Label in your UI.

Answer 2

1)You can modify it with css,for example:

Button button = new Button("Some text");
button.setStyle("-fx-font-size:26px;"); //or (em) or..

2)You can add the Label as a graphic to the Button(not recommended)(a good idea for that would be for example to add a ProgressIndicator inside a Button to show some progress when the Button is pressed)

 Label startLabel = new Label("Start");
 startLabel.setFont(new Font(26));
 Button start = new Button(""); //do not add Text to the Button
 start.setGraphic(startLabel);

3)Use setFont(...); method of Button.

 Button button = new Button("Some text");
 button.setFont(new Font(26));//you can play more with it creating custom fonts