In Swing, it was trivially easy to style a JLabel using HTML – you simply used the HTML you wanted as the text for the label, and it was rendered appropriately.
In JavaFX this isn’t available, but we can set the style of a particular label (or node in general) using the setStyle() method.
However, using this approach it’s not obvious how to set part of a label to be a certain style, for instance the equivalent of:
JLabel label = new JLabel("<html>Part of this <b>text is b</b>old and part isn't.</html>");
What would be the easiest way to achieve something like the above?
Pseudo-selectors could have been a work-around but unfortunately most of them are not supported yet – http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/scene/doc-files/cssref.html#introlimitations. As for Rich Text Support in controls, they will be provided by JavaFX8 – https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8091709.