JavaFX: How to disable ScrollBars in TableView

Question

I have a JavaFX TableView and I would like the table behavior to truncate the image of the TableView when the parent node resizes too small to display the data, instead of it becoming scrollable. To clarify, I just want the scroll bars disabled or not visible, so they don't show up.

Below is my node hierarchy in SceneBuilder in case that helps.

Things I've tried below

I read this post , but the answer just makes the cells resize to fit the width, instead of disabling the ScrollBar . I read the documentation on ScrollBar s here , but I couldn't find a visible or enabled property. I also read the TableView documentation here with no luck.

I searched the JavaFX CSS guide here and found that there are the two policies below that can refer to a scroll pane.

-fx-hbar-policy:
-fx-vbar-policy:

But wrapping the TableView in a ScrollPane did not work as expected. It did not allow me to "fit-to-parent". I would like to refer to these properties, but in a TableView directly if that's possible. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hiding the scroll bars completely, whether they're "supposed" to be displayed or not, can be achieved with the following CSS:

.table-view .scroll-bar * {
    -fx-min-width: 0;
    -fx-pref-width: 0;
    -fx-max-width: 0;

    -fx-min-height: 0;
    -fx-pref-height: 0;
    -fx-max-height: 0;
}

If you want to disable all scrolling then you can add an event filter to the TableView :

table.addEventFilter(ScrollEvent.ANY, Event::consume);

// or if you only want to disable horizontal scrolling
table.addEventFilter(ScrollEvent.ANY, event -> {
    if (event.getDeltaX() != 0) {
        event.consume();
    }
});

If you don't want the TableView to shrink when the parent gets too small, set the min size to use the pref size:

table.setMinSize(Region.USE_PREF_SIZE, Region.USE_PREF_SIZE);

If you don't want the TableView to grow beyond its pref size, do the same with the max size. You can also give an explicit pref size if you want.