JavaFX: How to position a component/node?

Question

In JavaFX, is there something similar to setLayout(); or setBounds();?

For example, I want to position a button to a position that I desir

Answer 1

In addition to what others already mentioned, if you could place your button (or any node for that matter) inside a StackPane, then you could make use of the StackPane's alignment property that takes javafx.geometry.Pos (the alignment of the child within the StackPane). For example in your case: