Swing style with CSS

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I have been doing some GUIs in Java. I know in other languages (like Python) you can create a CSS style sheet and load it into the program(pretty simple). But with Swing I have had to manually code the style for each individual component, which is tedious and hard to manage.

Is there a way, in Swing, that I can load an external style sheet, and use those styles for my components across my whole program?

I have already looked into "Look and Feel" as an option, but decided to go with CSS.

JavaFX 2 is full CSS-able and included up from Java7. Maybe time to go with it ... — PeterMmm, Jun 10 '13 at 20:03

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '13 at 20:09

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Swing will be deprecated and replaced by JavaFX in the long run. If you are building a new application, why don't you look into skinning JavaFX with CSS?

answered Jun 10 '13 at 20:09

Tilo

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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The best way I know is java-universal-css-engine, but I don't know if it's maintained anymore, because the last commit was on Mar 25, 2012.

So, regarding to this question, have a look at JAXX

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Jun 10 '13 at 19:57

Martin Seeler

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Swing style with CSS

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