Javadocs and CSS

David Grieve david.grieve at oracle.com
Fri May 16 14:57:38 UTC 2014


Would you mind creating a bug for this?

On 5/16/14, 10:38 AM, Scott Palmer wrote:
> Should a better cross-reference or mention of CSS properties in the Javadocs?
>
> Many properties can be set via calling methods or through CSS, but
> when browsing the Javadocs the related CSS properties are not
> mentioned (at least not in most cases).
>
> The package docs for javafx.scene mention the CSS Reference Guide at
> the end of the description, and careful reading of that document
> mentions the convention used to go from JavaFX variable names to CSS
> property. (last paragraph of
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/doc-files/cssref.html#introscenegraph)
>
> I think all that is needed is to mention in the JavaDocs if the
> property is configurable from CSS or not. Or at least mention the
> exceptions to the rule.  For example most properties of Labeled are
> configurable via CSS, but "lineSpacing" and "mnemonicParsing" are
> *not* mentioned among the CSS properties.
> (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/doc-files/cssref.html#labeled)
>
>
> Scott



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