An HBox lays out its children in a single horizontal row.
A VBox lays out its children in a single vertical column.
FlowPane can lay out its children in multiple rows or multiple columns, but an HBox or a VBox can lay out children only in one row or one column.
import javafx.application.Application; import javafx.geometry.Insets; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.control.Button; import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane; import javafx.scene.layout.HBox; import javafx.stage.Stage; public class Main extends Application { @Override/*from ww w. j a v a 2 s. c o m*/ public void start(Stage primaryStage) { // Create a border pane BorderPane pane = new BorderPane(); // Place nodes in the pane pane.setTop(getHBox()); Scene scene = new Scene(pane); primaryStage.setTitle("demo2s"); primaryStage.setScene(scene); primaryStage.show(); } private HBox getHBox() { HBox hBox = new HBox(15); hBox.setPadding(new Insets(15, 15, 15, 15)); hBox.getChildren().add(new Button("HTML")); hBox.getChildren().add(new Button("CSS")); return hBox; } public static void main(String[] args) { launch(args); } }