Question: Change StyleClassedTextArea Text Color

[SkyAphid]

Hello! I'm a bit of a CSS novice. So I apologize in advance if this turns out to be a stupid question.

I'm trying to change the color of the text in a StyleClassedTextArea. I've tried all sorts of things and nothing is changing it. It just stays black.

Here's all of the code:

StyleClassedTextArea projectNameField = new StyleClassedTextArea();
projectNameField.insertText(0, project.getName());
		
projectNameField.setBackground(Background.EMPTY);

String fontStyle 	= "-fx-font-family: '" + robotoRegular20.getFamily() + "'; -fx-font-size: " + robotoRegular20.getSize() + ";";
String colorStyle 	= "-fx-fill: " + Button.getTextColorCode() + ";";
String borderStyle 	= "-fx-border-color: " + Button.getTextColorCode() + "; -fx-border-width: 0 0 1 0;";
		
projectNameField.setStyle(fontStyle + colorStyle + borderStyle);

Just to clarify, the Button.getTextColorCode() works everywhere except on the text area color.

Why isn't -fx-fill working here? I also tried various other color commands. None of them do anything.

Thanks for your time and the API!

[JordanMartinez]

Not a stupid question. I don't particularly like or always understand CSS either.

Please read through the wiki page on styling. That should answer your question. It seems you are confusing inline css styling with style class styling.

[SkyAphid]

I managed to get it to work by changing it to an InlineCssTextArea and doing this based on a similar question I found on here:

projectNameField.setStyle(0, projectNameField.getText().length(), "-fx-fill: " + Button.getTextColorCode() + ";");

Have you guys made a cleaner way to do this yet? Otherwise I have to reset the style every time the field is modified. I tried just using -fx-fill normally but it wasn't working until I used this version with the range attached.

[JordanMartinez]

Have you guys made a cleaner way to do this yet? Otherwise I have to reset the style every time the field is modified. I tried just using -fx-fill normally but it wasn't working until I used this version with the range attached.

It sounds like you goal is to create an area whose text fill is updated during runtime using a value set by a user. Have you checked out the RichText demo (see RichTextDemo.java and TextStyle.java) where we do the same thing?

[SkyAphid]

I hope I don't seem rude by saying this, but when you guys get time, you should really consider commenting these out. As someone who just started using your API, the purpose for a lot of this is lost on me. I'll try and import it and delve into it if I get time, but I'll probably just roll with what I had above since that works unless there's a better one-line fix.

EDIT: it seems just calling that line once doesn't require it to be re-called when you change the text. I don't know why but I'm just gonna take it lol