How to find an element with an ID in JavaFX?

Question

I have an element with the ID history type of TableView. How can I find and access this object if I have the instance of Scene scene?

Uluk Biy · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-30T15:25:13.813

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Try

TableView tb = (TableView) scene.lookup("#history");

edited Oct 30 '13 at 15:25

answered Aug 30 '12 at 17:23

Uluk Biy

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A pound sign is required when looking up an id. So it should look like this: scene.lookup("#history"); – Orbiting Eden Jun 11 '13 at 21:52
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@Uluk Biy can you update your answer with as TableView tb = (TableView) scene.lookup("#history"); so that others will easily understand by seeing the answer. Thank you. – AJJ Oct 30 '13 at 10:44
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There is one important thing. This will work **after** you will invoke ```primaryStage.show()``` – MAGx2 May 30 '17 at 10:33
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@MAGx2 _This will work after you will invoke primaryStage.show()_ as a general statement, that's not quite right (depends on how the nodes are injected - see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68475291/javafx-finding-node-by-id) – kleopatra Jul 22 '21 at 10:20

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