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Javafx - Hide TreeTableRow based on data content

I created a TableTree that contains object of class Component that has a boolean property "selected".
I want to hide the rows from the table where the rows component is not selected.
I tried this:
componentTree.setRowFactory(new Callback<TreeTableView<Component>, TreeTableRow<Component>>() {
#Override
public TreeTableRow<Component> call(TreeTableView<Component> param) {
TreeTableRow<Component> row = new TreeTableRow<Component>() {
#Override
protected void updateItem(Component component, boolean empty) {
if(!empty) {
if (!component.isSelected()) {
setVisible(false);
setManaged(false);
System.out.println("hide");
} else {
setVisible(true);
setManaged(true);
System.out.println("show");
}
}
}
};
return row;
}
});
On system.out I can see a lot of "show" and "hide" messages, but this doesn't affect the table, all rows are shown as before.
Any idea on this topic?
Thanks!

I used eclipse's fx.ui.controls library for the same achieve the same goal before.
<dependency>
<groupId>at.bestsolution.eclipse</groupId>
<artifactId>org.eclipse.fx.ui.controls</artifactId>
<version>2.2.0</version>
</dependency>
The library provides a class: FilterableTreeItem<T> under the tree package. This class was designed to be used in cases like yours. You can provide a Predicate to the root of the tree and the items will get hidden when the value given changes:
// Children
final FilterableTreeItem<Component> childNode1 = new FilterableTreeItem<>(component1);
final FilterableTreeItem<Component> childNode2 = new FilterableTreeItem<>(component2);
final FilterableTreeItem<Component> childNode3 = new FilterableTreeItem<>(component3);
// Root
final FilterableTreeItem<Component> root = new FilterableTreeItem<>(rootComponent);
root.getInternalChildren().setAll(childNode1, childNode2, childNode3);
root.setPredicate((parent, value) -> value.isSelected());
// TreeTableView
final TreeTableView<Component> treeTableView = new TreeTableView<>(root);
Note that you have to use getInternalChildren() to add children and the default getChildren().
FilterableTreeItem<T> also provides a predicateProperty() that you can bind to another property in case you need to update the how items are shown or hidden.
Another advatage of this class is that it shows the whole path up to the root of the items matching that predicate.

JavaFX: How to move "drop down arrow" in TitledPane to be on right

I hope everyone is doing well.
I'm trying to move the drop down arrow in a TitledPane to be laid out on the right, instead of the left like it is by default. I'm using JavaFX 8, and many of the resources I've found don't seem to work.
I have found that I am able to move the arrow a specific amount, like 20 pixels shown below
.accordion .title > .arrow-button .arrow
{
-fx-translate-x: 20;
}
But I want something responsive. Is there some way that I can get the width of the titled pane, and then subtract some pixels so that so that the arrow appears to be laid out on the right when resizing? Is there a better way to it? I added the element using SceneBuilder2 if that matters.
Thanks so much for your time.
Edit: The following was added for clarification
Primarily, I want the arrow to be right justified, like below
Instead of just "to the right" of the arrow. I really appreciate all the assistance.

Unfortunately, there's no public API for moving the arrow to the right side of the TitledPane. This doesn't mean this can't be accomplished, however, we just have to translate the arrow dynamically, using bindings. In order for the rest of the title area to look correct we'll also have to translate the text, and graphic if present, to the left. The easiest way to do all this is by subclassing TitledPaneSkin and accessing the internals of the "title region".
Here's an example implementation. It lets you position the arrow on the left or right side via CSS. It's also responsive to resizing as well as alignment and graphic changes.
package com.example;
import static javafx.css.StyleConverter.getEnumConverter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;
import javafx.beans.binding.Bindings;
import javafx.beans.binding.DoubleBinding;
import javafx.beans.property.ObjectProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.Property;
import javafx.css.CssMetaData;
import javafx.css.SimpleStyleableObjectProperty;
import javafx.css.StyleableObjectProperty;
import javafx.css.StyleableProperty;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.scene.control.Skin;
import javafx.scene.control.TitledPane;
import javafx.scene.control.skin.TitledPaneSkin;
import javafx.scene.layout.Region;
import javafx.scene.text.Text;
public class CustomTitledPaneSkin extends TitledPaneSkin {
public enum ArrowSide {
LEFT, RIGHT
}
/* ********************************************************
* *
* Properties *
* *
**********************************************************/
private final StyleableObjectProperty<ArrowSide> arrowSide
= new SimpleStyleableObjectProperty<>(StyleableProperties.ARROW_SIDE, this, "arrowSide", ArrowSide.LEFT) {
#Override protected void invalidated() {
adjustTitleLayout();
}
};
public final void setArrowSide(ArrowSide arrowSide) { this.arrowSide.set(arrowSide); }
public final ArrowSide getArrowSide() { return arrowSide.get(); }
public final ObjectProperty<ArrowSide> arrowSideProperty() { return arrowSide; }
/* ********************************************************
* *
* Instance Fields *
* *
**********************************************************/
private final Region title;
private final Region arrow;
private final Text text;
private DoubleBinding arrowTranslateBinding;
private DoubleBinding textGraphicTranslateBinding;
private Node graphic;
/* ********************************************************
* *
* Constructors *
* *
**********************************************************/
public CustomTitledPaneSkin(TitledPane control) {
super(control);
title = (Region) Objects.requireNonNull(control.lookup(".title"));
arrow = (Region) Objects.requireNonNull(title.lookup(".arrow-button"));
text = (Text) Objects.requireNonNull(title.lookup(".text"));
registerChangeListener(control.graphicProperty(), ov -> adjustTitleLayout());
}
/* ********************************************************
* *
* Skin Stuff *
* *
**********************************************************/
private void adjustTitleLayout() {
clearBindings();
if (getArrowSide() != ArrowSide.RIGHT) {
// if arrow is on the left we don't need to translate anything
return;
}
arrowTranslateBinding = Bindings.createDoubleBinding(() -> {
double rightInset = title.getPadding().getRight();
return title.getWidth() - arrow.getLayoutX() - arrow.getWidth() - rightInset;
}, title.paddingProperty(), title.widthProperty(), arrow.widthProperty(), arrow.layoutXProperty());
arrow.translateXProperty().bind(arrowTranslateBinding);
textGraphicTranslateBinding = Bindings.createDoubleBinding(() -> {
switch (getSkinnable().getAlignment()) {
case TOP_CENTER:
case CENTER:
case BOTTOM_CENTER:
case BASELINE_CENTER:
return 0.0;
default:
return -(arrow.getWidth());
}
}, getSkinnable().alignmentProperty(), arrow.widthProperty());
text.translateXProperty().bind(textGraphicTranslateBinding);
graphic = getSkinnable().getGraphic();
if (graphic != null) {
graphic.translateXProperty().bind(textGraphicTranslateBinding);
}
}
private void clearBindings() {
if (arrowTranslateBinding != null) {
arrow.translateXProperty().unbind();
arrow.setTranslateX(0);
arrowTranslateBinding.dispose();
arrowTranslateBinding = null;
}
if (textGraphicTranslateBinding != null) {
text.translateXProperty().unbind();
text.setTranslateX(0);
if (graphic != null) {
graphic.translateXProperty().unbind();
graphic.setTranslateX(0);
graphic = null;
}
textGraphicTranslateBinding.dispose();
textGraphicTranslateBinding = null;
}
}
#Override
public void dispose() {
clearBindings();
unregisterChangeListeners(getSkinnable().graphicProperty());
super.dispose();
}
/* ********************************************************
* *
* Stylesheet Handling *
* *
**********************************************************/
public static List<CssMetaData<?, ?>> getClassCssMetaData() {
return StyleableProperties.CSS_META_DATA;
}
#Override
public List<CssMetaData<?, ?>> getCssMetaData() {
return getClassCssMetaData();
}
private static class StyleableProperties {
private static final CssMetaData<TitledPane, ArrowSide> ARROW_SIDE
= new CssMetaData<>("-fx-arrow-side", getEnumConverter(ArrowSide.class), ArrowSide.LEFT) {
#Override
public boolean isSettable(TitledPane styleable) {
Property<?> prop = (Property<?>) getStyleableProperty(styleable);
return prop != null && !prop.isBound();
}
#Override
public StyleableProperty<ArrowSide> getStyleableProperty(TitledPane styleable) {
Skin<?> skin = styleable.getSkin();
if (skin instanceof CustomTitledPaneSkin) {
return ((CustomTitledPaneSkin) skin).arrowSide;
}
return null;
}
};
private static final List<CssMetaData<?, ?>> CSS_META_DATA;
static {
List<CssMetaData<?,?>> list = new ArrayList<>(TitledPane.getClassCssMetaData().size() + 1);
list.addAll(TitledPaneSkin.getClassCssMetaData());
list.add(ARROW_SIDE);
CSS_META_DATA = Collections.unmodifiableList(list);
}
}
}
You can then apply this skin to all TitledPanes in your application from CSS, like so:
.titled-pane {
-fx-skin: "com.example.CustomTitledPaneSkin";
-fx-arrow-side: right;
}
/*
* The arrow button has some right padding that's added
* by "modena.css". This simply puts the padding on the
* left since the arrow is positioned on the right.
*/
.titled-pane > .title > .arrow-button {
-fx-padding: 0.0em 0.0em 0.0em 0.583em;
}
Or you could target only certain TitledPanes by adding a style class and using said class instead of .titled-pane.
The above works with JavaFX 11 and likely JavaFX 10 and 9 as well. To get it to compile on JavaFX 8 you need to change some things:
Import com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.TitledPaneSkin instead.
The skin classes were made public in JavaFX 9.
Remove the calls to registerChangeListener(...) and unregisterChangeListeners(...). I believe replacing them with the following is correct:
#Override
protected void handleControlPropertyChange(String p) {
super.handleControlPropertyChange(p);
if ("GRAPHIC".equals(p)) {
adjustTitleLayout();
}
}
Use new SimpleStyleableObjectProperty<ArrowSide>(...) {...} and new CssMetaData<TitledPane, ArrowSide>(...) {...}.
Type inference was improved in later versions of Java.
Use (StyleConverter<?, ArrowSide>) getEnumConverter(ArrowSide.class).
There was a bug in the generic signature of getEnumConverter that was fixed in a later version. Using the cast works around the problem. You may wish to #SuppressWarnings("unchecked") the cast.
Issue: Even with the above changes there's a problem in JavaFX 8—the arrow is only translated once the TitledPane is focused. This doesn't appear to be a problem with the above code as even changing the alignment property does not cause the TitledPane to update until it has focus (even when not using the above skin, but rather just the default skin). I've been unable to find a workaround to this problem (while using the custom skin) but maybe you or someone else can. I was using Java 1.8.0_202 when testing for JavaFX 8.
If you don't want to use a custom skin, or you're on JavaFX 8 (this will cause the arrow to be translated without needing to focus the TitledPane first), you can extract the necessary code, with some modifications, into a utility method:
public static void putArrowOnRight(TitledPane pane) {
Region title = (Region) pane.lookup(".title");
Region arrow = (Region) title.lookup(".arrow-button");
Text text = (Text) title.lookup(".text");
arrow.translateXProperty().bind(Bindings.createDoubleBinding(() -> {
double rightInset = title.getPadding().getRight();
return title.getWidth() - arrow.getLayoutX() - arrow.getWidth() - rightInset;
}, title.paddingProperty(), title.widthProperty(), arrow.widthProperty(), arrow.layoutXProperty()));
arrow.setStyle("-fx-padding: 0.0em 0.0em 0.0em 0.583em;");
DoubleBinding textGraphicBinding = Bindings.createDoubleBinding(() -> {
switch (pane.getAlignment()) {
case TOP_CENTER:
case CENTER:
case BOTTOM_CENTER:
case BASELINE_CENTER:
return 0.0;
default:
return -(arrow.getWidth());
}
}, arrow.widthProperty(), pane.alignmentProperty());
text.translateXProperty().bind(textGraphicBinding);
pane.graphicProperty().addListener((observable, oldGraphic, newGraphic) -> {
if (oldGraphic != null) {
oldGraphic.translateXProperty().unbind();
oldGraphic.setTranslateX(0);
}
if (newGraphic != null) {
newGraphic.translateXProperty().bind(textGraphicBinding);
}
});
if (pane.getGraphic() != null) {
pane.getGraphic().translateXProperty().bind(textGraphicBinding);
}
}
Note: While this puts the arrow on the right without having to focus the TitledPane first, the TitledPane still suffers from the issue noted above. For instance, changing the alignment property doesn't update the TitledPane until it's focused. I'm guessing this is simply a bug in JavaFX 8.
This way of doing things is not as "easy" as the skin approach and requires two things:
The TitledPane must be using the default TitledPaneSkin.
The TitledPane must have been displayed in a Window (window was showing) before calling the utility method.
Due to the lazy nature of JavaFX controls, the skin and the associated nodes will not have been created until the control has been displayed in a window. Calling the utility method before the control was displayed will result in a NullPointerException being thrown since the lookup calls will return null.
If using FXML, note that the initialize method is called during a call to FXMLLoader.load (any of the overloads). This means, under normal circumstances, it's not possible for the created nodes to be part of a Scene yet, let alone a showing Window. You must wait for the TitledPane to be displayed first, then call the utility method.
Waiting for the TitledPane to be displayed can be achieved by listening to the Node.scene property, the Scene.window property, and the Window.showing property (or you could listen for WindowEvent.WINDOW_SHOWN events). However, if you immediately put the loaded nodes into a showing Window, then you can forgo observing the properties; call the utility method inside a Platform.runLater call from inside initialize.
When using the skin approach, the whole wait-for-showing-window hassle is avoided.
Usual Warning: This answer relies on the internal structure of TitledPane which may change in a future release. Be cautious when changing JavaFX versions. I only (somewhat) tested this on JavaFX 8u202 and JavaFX 11.0.2.

This isn’t exactly the same, visually, but you can hide the arrow button and create a graphic that acts like an arrow button. TitledPane extends Labeled, so you have control over the placement of the graphic relative to the text, via the contentDisplay property.
First, hide the arrow button in the stylesheet:
.accordion .title > .arrow-button
{
visibility: hidden;
}
In the code, you can create a Label to act as a fake button and set it as the TitledPane’s graphic. The entire title line is sensitive to the mouse, so an interactive control (like a Button) is not needed.
Label collapseButton = new Label();
collapseButton.textProperty().bind(
Bindings.when(titledPane.expandedProperty())
.then("\u25bc").otherwise("\u25b6"));
titledPane.setGraphic(collapseButton);
titledPane.setContentDisplay(ContentDisplay.RIGHT);

In FXML you can just add nodeOrientation="RIGHT_TO_LEFT"
or use yourNode.setNodeOrientation​((NodeOrientation orientation)
https://openjfx.io/javadoc/11/javafx.graphics/javafx/scene/Node.html#setNodeOrientation(javafx.geometry.NodeOrientation)

Do properties of properties make sense?

Because this is a question about design I'll start by saying what i have and what i want.
I have a design that uses composition. A Cell object holds a Shape and a Background objects (custom made ones for this example). Each of these 2 have their own data that defines them. here is the example in code:
class Cell {
Shape shape;
Background background;
class Shape {
int size;
Color color;
Point location;
//...
}
class Background {
Color color;
String name;
CoverType type;
//...
}
}
I also have a GUI that needs to represent many cells and i have written how to do it (how to use color, size etc. to create what i want on the screen). It includes classes such as CellRepresentation, ShapeRepresentation and BackgroundRepresentation that have their display properties bound to the the data properties (i think this is called Model and View).
I want to be able to represent changes in the GUI by changing the above data:
a user can (for example) right-click on a shape and set its color. So the data above changes and the change needs to be reflected in the GUI.
a user can also change the whole shape (for example copy-paste it from another cell). Or even the whole cell. These changes also need to reflect in the GUI.
My question is which of the class members need to be JavaFX properties that I bind to.
Here is what I am thinking: the "leaf" properties (size, color, location...) must be properties so I can bind to them the GUI property. But do I need to make the shape and background objects properties too? Only their properties have "Actual" representation on the screen. Ideally i would have liked it that if Shape changes then all of its properties tell their bindings that they could have changed (maybe the color didn't but size did). But it doesn't work this way - even though the Color of a Shape can change when the Shape changes the Color property won't tell whatever is bound to it that it changed.
The same goes for making Cell a property in the lager picture where there are many cells and so on: properties of properties delegating changes.
So I thought of making the Shape and Background also properties and registering an InvalidationListener to them updates their properties. This just doesn't seem right because i would think that with all the support for properties there would be a way to do what i want.
Can someone suggest a way to do this?

Using just the standard JavaFX API you can leverage the Bindings.selectXXX methods to observe a "property of a property".
So for example:
import javafx.beans.binding.Bindings;
import javafx.beans.property.IntegerProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.ObjectProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleIntegerProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleObjectProperty;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
public class Cell {
private final ObjectProperty<Shape> shape = new SimpleObjectProperty<>(new Shape());
public final ObjectProperty<Shape> shapeProperty() {
return this.shape;
}
public final Cell.Shape getShape() {
return this.shapeProperty().get();
}
public final void setShape(final Cell.Shape shape) {
this.shapeProperty().set(shape);
}
public static class Shape {
private final IntegerProperty size = new SimpleIntegerProperty(0);
private final ObjectProperty<Color> color = new SimpleObjectProperty<>(Color.BLACK);
public final IntegerProperty sizeProperty() {
return this.size;
}
public final int getSize() {
return this.sizeProperty().get();
}
public final void setSize(final int size) {
this.sizeProperty().set(size);
}
public final ObjectProperty<Color> colorProperty() {
return this.color;
}
public final javafx.scene.paint.Color getColor() {
return this.colorProperty().get();
}
public final void setColor(final javafx.scene.paint.Color color) {
this.colorProperty().set(color);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
Cell cell = new Cell();
Bindings.selectInteger(cell.shapeProperty(), "size").addListener(
(obs, oldSize, newSize) -> System.out.println("Size changed from "+oldSize+" to "+newSize));
cell.getShape().setSize(10);
cell.setShape(new Shape());
Shape s = new Shape();
s.setSize(20);
cell.setShape(s);
}
}
Will produce the (desired) output
Size changed from 0 to 10
Size changed from 10 to 0
Size changed from 0 to 20
This API has a bit of a legacy feel to it, in that it relies on passing the property name as a string, and consequently is not typesafe and cannot be checked at compile time. Additionally, if any of the intermediate properties are null (e.g. if cel.getShape() returns null in this example), the bindings generate annoying and verbose warning messages (even though this is supposed to be a supported use case).
Tomas Mikula has a more modern implementation in his ReactFX library, see this post for a description. Using ReactFX, you would do:
public static void main(String[] args) {
Cell cell = new Cell();
Var<Number> size = Val.selectVar(cell.shapeProperty(), Shape::sizeProperty);
size.addListener(
(obs, oldSize, newSize) -> System.out.println("Size changed from "+oldSize+" to "+newSize));
cell.getShape().setSize(10);
cell.setShape(new Shape());
Shape s = new Shape();
s.setSize(20);
cell.setShape(s);
}
Finally, if you are creating a list of cells, you can create an ObservableList specifying an extractor. The extractor is a function mapping each element in the list (each Cell) to an array of Observables. If any of those Observables changes, the list fires an update event. So you could do
ObservableList<Cell> cellList =
FXCollections.observableArrayList(cell -> new Observable[] {Bindings.selectInteger(cell.shapeProperty(), "size")});
using the standard API, or
ObservableList<Cell> cellList =
FXCollections.observableArrayList(cell -> new Observable[] {Val.selectVar(cell.shapeProperty(), Shape::sizeProperty)});
using ReactFX. Then just add a ListChangeListener to the list, and it will be notified if the size changes (or if the shape changes to a new shape with a different size). You can add as many observables that are properties (or properties of properties) of the cell in the returned array as you need.

How to make only some columns editable in a Vaadin Grid?

Vaadin Grid allows to be defined as editable with
grid.setEditorEnabled(true);
This makes all visible columns editable. However I don't want the user to edit an specific column, but seems like the editable is an all or nothing.
The next best solution I have found is to define an editor field with a disabled editor, which almost does the trick but the user is still able to select the text and move the cursor (but the field is not editable anymore).
Grid.Column nameColumn = grid.getColumn("fullName");
nameColumn.setHeaderCaption("Full Name");
nameColumn.setEditorField(getNoEditableTextField());
...
private Field<?> getNoEditableTextField() {
TextField noEditableTextFiled = new TextField();
noEditableTextFiled.setEnabled(false);
return noEditableTextFiled;
}
I believe Label cannot be used because it's not a Field.
Is there a better option to achieve this?
edit: as aakath said, there is a way of achieving this not enabling the column to be edited, but in doing so the cell value disappears when you edit the row, which is not desirable.

Did you try calling setEditable(false) method on the column? I believe it should make the field non-editable when the item editor is active.
grid.getColumn("fullName").setEditable(false);

my solution is below. i have just finished. it was not tested too much. but it may give you some ideas.
ati
getColumn(columnName).setEditable(true).setEditorField(getNoEditableField(columnName));
...
private Field<?> getNoEditableField(final String columnName) {
CustomField<Label> result = new CustomField() {
#Override
protected Component getContent() {
Label result = (Label) super.getContent();
Object editedItemId = getEditedItemId();
String value = DEFAULT_VALUE;
if (editedItemId != null) {
value = CustomizableGrid.this.toString(getContainerDataSource().getItem(editedItemId).getItemProperty(columnName).getValue());
}
result.setValue(value);
return result;
}
#Override
protected Component initContent() {
Label result = new Label(DEFAULT_VALUE, ContentMode.HTML);
result.setDescription(getColumnDescription(columnName));
result.setStyleName("immutablegridcellstyle");
return result;
}
#Override
public Class getType() {
return Label.class;
}
};
result.setConverter(new Converter<Label, Object>() {
//converter for your data
});
return result;
}

I had the same problem and didn't want that clicking on id column opens editor. I solved it with adding an ItemClickListener as below. It works fine for me.
grid.addItemClickListener((ItemClickListener<GridBean>) event -> grid.getEditor().setEnabled(!event.getColumn().getCaption().equals("Id")));
Also byc clicking on specific columns Grid is not editable any more.

There is one tricky way to do it! I've just found out it.
So, first of all you need to use grid with container, instead of direct rows adding:
BeanItemContainer<MyBean> container = new BeanItemContainer<>(MyBean.class);
setContainerDataSource(container);
Then remove fields setters from MyBean, except setters for fields what you have to edit.

I think the same can be achieved by making the grid an editable one by grid.setEditorEnabled(true); and disabling editing option for other columns like grid.getColumn(columnName).setEditable(false);. But I am not sure of any demerits of this method. Any suggestion is always appreciated.

Its simple just go to Vaadin Documentation what did from it is below:
you can see here I gave a specified column Name
grid = new Grid<>();
lst = new ArrayList<>();
provider = new ListDataProvider<>(lst);
lst.add(new Company(1, "Java"));
grid.setDataProvider(provider);
grid.addColumn(Company::getSerialNo).setCaption("Sr.no");
TextField tf = new TextField();
grid.getEditor().setEnabled(true);
HorizontalLayout hlyt = new HorizontalLayout();
grid.addColumn(Company::getName).setEditorComponent(tf, Company::setName).setCaption("Name").setExpandRatio(2);
hlyt.addComponent(grid);

I use the following approach to get a read-only field, the trick is override the setEnabled method to get a disabled textfield. If you trace the source code in Vaadin Grid, no matter what field you pass to a Grid, it will always call the field.setEnabled(true).
myGrid.getColumn(propertyId).setEditorField(new ReadOnlyField());
And
public class ReadOnlyField extends TextField
{
public ReadOnlyField()
{
super();
this.setReadOnly(true);
}
#Override
public void setEnabled(boolean enabled)
{
// always set to disabled state
super.setEnabled(false);
}
}

Java FX: TableView - display simple HTML

I'd like to know, if it is possible to render simple HTML tags in JavaFX TableView (b, i, subscript, supscript). In my code snippet I used default cellValueFactory, but maybe someone could tell me if exists any cell factory which allow me to display html.
From code:
class Data{
private String row = "<b> Sample data</b>"
public String getRow(){
return row;
}
TableView<Data> tableView = new TableView();
TableColumn<Data,String> column = new TableColumn("Sample Column");
column.setCellValueFactory(new PropertyValueFactory<Data, String>("row"));
tableView.getColumns().addAll(column);
I wish I could see Sample Data in my table in bold. Thanks in advance!
--UPDATE
Code that allows me to see my HTML, but resizes table cell, WebView size is ignored and not wrapped tight
private class HTMLCell extends TableCell<Component, Component> {
#Override
protected void updateItem(Component item, boolean empty) {
super.updateItem(item, empty);
if (!empty) {
WebView webView = new WebView();
webView.setMaxWidth(200);
webView.setMaxHeight(50);
WebEngine engine = webView.getEngine();
// setGraphic(new Label("Test"));
setGraphic(webView);
String formula = item.getFormula();
engine.loadContent(formula);
}
}
}
TableColumn<Component, Component> formulaColumn = new TableColumn<>("Formula");
formulaColumn.setMinWidth(300);
formulaColumn.setCellFactory(new Callback<TableColumn<Component, Component>, TableCell<Component, Component>>() {
#Override
public TableCell<Component, Component> call(TableColumn<Component, Component> param) {
return new HTMLCell();
}
});
formulaColumn.setCellValueFactory(new Callback<TableColumn.CellDataFeatures<Component, Component>, ObservableValue<Component>>() {
#Override
public ObservableValue<Component> call(CellDataFeatures<Component, Component> param) {
return new SimpleObjectProperty<Component>(param.getValue());
}
});

HTML in a WebView in a TableCell
You have to make your own cell factory which returns a WebView node into which you load your HTML content.
On Correctly Sizing the WebView
In terms of establishing the preferred size of the WebView node, that is a little tricky. It would be simpler if RT-25005 Automatic preferred sizing of WebView were implemented.
I think the sample code from your question will work if you just replace the maxSize setting for the WebView with a webView.setPrefSize(prefX, prefY) call. You will just have to guess what the prefX and prefY values should be as I don't know a good way of determining programmatically.
I think your code should work by setting the max size for the WebView, but the WebView doesn't seem to respect the max size setting and just uses the pref size setting, which I think may be a bug in Java 8b129 (you could file that in the JavaFX Issue Tracker with a minimal, executable test case which reproduces it and a description of your test environment).
TextFlow Alternative
You might also consider using TextFlow component for representing your styled text. It is not HTML, but if all you want to do is some simple styling like making some text in the cell bold or italic, it might be a good option.

Use HTML tables in WebEngine/WebView rather than TableView.
Table examples