Focus Property of TextField

TextFieldFocus

This is a small example doing what you want ! I have used the `focus property` of `textfield` to add and remove miles from it !


import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class TextBinding extends Application {

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        final TextField user = new TextField();
        TextField demo = new TextField();
        user.setStyle("-fx-background-color: transparent;-fx-border-color:blue;");
        user.focusedProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Boolean>()
        		{
        		    @Override
        		    public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Boolean> arg0, Boolean oldPropertyValue, Boolean newPropertyValue)
        		    {
        		        if (newPropertyValue)
        		        {
        		            user.setText(user.getText().replace(" miles", ""));
        		        }
        		        else
        		        {
        		        	user.setText(user.getText().concat(" miles"));
        		        }
        		    }
        		});
        VBox root = new VBox();
        root.getChildren().addAll(user,demo);
        Scene scene = new Scene(root, 300, 250);

        primaryStage.setTitle("transparent text test");
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
    }
    
    public static void main(String args[]) {
		launch(args);
	}
}

With reference to

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22253497/permanent-text-in-a-textfield-in-java