Implementation of 'Select All' checkbox in JavaFX TableView

In this tutorial, you will learn to use select all checkboxes to select all rows in a table view. This is a very cool feature that everyone needs at time of using JavaFX TableView. This is created with fxml based project in Netbeans IDE.

Here i am sharing implementation code used to create this sample application. Code has been given below as per file name.

FXMLDocument.fxml

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

<?import javafx.scene.text.*?>

<?import java.lang.*?>

<?import java.util.*?>

<?import javafx.scene.*?>

<?import javafx.scene.control.*?>

<?import javafx.scene.layout.*?>

<font>

</font>

</Label>

</columns></TableView>

<font>

</font>

</CheckBox>

</children>

</AnchorPane>

FXMLDocumentController.java

package tableviewexample;

import java.net.URL;

import java.util.ResourceBundle;

import javafx.beans.InvalidationListener;

import javafx.beans.Observable;

import javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener;

import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;

import javafx.collections.FXCollections;

import javafx.collections.ObservableList;

import javafx.event.ActionEvent;

import javafx.fxml.FXML;

import javafx.fxml.Initializable;

import javafx.scene.control.Button;

import javafx.scene.control.CheckBox;

import javafx.scene.control.Label;

import javafx.scene.control.TableColumn;

import javafx.scene.control.TableView;

import javafx.scene.control.cell.PropertyValueFactory;

/**

* @author Cool IT Help

public class FXMLDocumentController implements Initializable {

@FXML

private Label label;

@FXML

TableView tableview;

@FXML

private TableColumn name, age, email, actionCol;

@FXML

private CheckBox selectAll;

ObservableList<Person> data;

ObservableList<Person> items;

@FXML

private void handleButtonAction(ActionEvent event) {

System.out.println(“You clicked me!”);

label.setText(“Hello World!”);

}

public void initialize(URL url, ResourceBundle rb) {

selectAll.selectedProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Boolean>() {

@Override

public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Boolean> observable, Boolean oldValue, Boolean newValue) {

System.out.println(“Select All Selected”);

items = tableview.getItems(); // getting table records

for(Person item : items)

{

if(selectAll.isSelected())

item.getRemark().setSelected(true);

else

item.getRemark().setSelected(false);

}

});

data = FXCollections.observableArrayList(

new Person(“Jacob”, “23”, “jacob.smith@example.com”, “”),

new Person(“Isabella”, “45”, “isabella.johnson@example.com”, “”),

new Person(“Ethan”, “38”, “ethan.williams@example.com”, “”),

new Person(“Emma”, “29”, “emma.jones@example.com”, “”),

new Person(“Michael”, “31”, “michael.brown@example.com”, “”),

new Person(“Michael”, “25”, “michael.brown@example.com”, “”),

new Person(“Michael”, “32”, “michael.brown@example.com”, “”),

new Person(“Michael”, “34”, “michael.brown@example.com”, “”)

);

name.setCellValueFactory(

new PropertyValueFactory<Person,String>(“firstName”)

);

age.setCellValueFactory(

new PropertyValueFactory<Person,String>(“age”)

);

email.setCellValueFactory(

new PropertyValueFactory<Person,String>(“email”)

);

actionCol.setCellValueFactory(

new PropertyValueFactory<Person,String>(“remark”)

);

tableview.setItems(data);

}

Person.java

package tableviewexample;

import javafx.beans.property.SimpleBooleanProperty;

import javafx.beans.property.SimpleStringProperty;

import javafx.scene.control.Button;

import javafx.scene.control.CheckBox;

import javafx.scene.control.TextField;

public class Person {

private final SimpleStringProperty name;

private final SimpleStringProperty age;

private final SimpleStringProperty email;

private CheckBox remark;

Person(String fName, String age, String email, String value) {

this.name = new SimpleStringProperty(fName);

this.age = new SimpleStringProperty(age);

this.email = new SimpleStringProperty(email);

this.remark = new CheckBox();

}

public String getFirstName() {

return name.get();

}

public void setFirstName(String fName) {

name.set(fName);

}

public String getLastName() {

return age.get();

}

public void setLastName(String fName) {

age.set(fName);

}

public String getEmail() {

return email.get();

}

public void setEmail(String fName) {

email.set(fName);

}

public CheckBox getRemark() {

return remark;

}

public void setRemark(CheckBox remark) {

this.remark = remark;

}

TableViewExample.java

package tableviewexample;

import javafx.application.Application;

import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader;

import javafx.scene.Parent;

import javafx.scene.Scene;

import javafx.stage.Stage;

/**

* @author Cool IT Help

public class TableViewExample extends Application {

@Override

public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {

Parent root = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource(“FXMLDocument.fxml”));

Scene scene = new Scene(root);

scene.getStylesheets().add(“/CSS/mycss.css”);

stage.setScene(scene);

stage.show();

}

/**

* @param args the command line arguments

public static void main(String[] args) {

launch(args);

}

For better clarification, I would suggest you please watch my YouTube video tutorial for a better understanding of the whole concept. I have explained the base concept with the help of a simple JavaFX project example. Click below to watch it.

If you still have any questions or doubts please ask in the comment box. I will try my best to reply as soon as possible.

Happy coding! 🙂