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Eclipse 2023-09: implementing JavaFX CSS Styling Not Applying to SceneBuilder Generated FXML

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I'm deploying to production and After trying multiple solutions online, I still can't figure this out. I'm stuck on something that should probably be simple... I'm relatively new to this, so bear with me. I'm currently working on a JavaFX application using Eclipse 2023-09, and I'm working with an scenario where my CSS styles are not applying to the FXML generated by SceneBuilder. I've checked the CSS file path and it seems correct, but the styles are simply not reflecting in the UI. Here's a snippet of how I'm loading the FXML in my controller: ```java FXMLLoader loader = new FXMLLoader(getClass().getResource("/path/to/MyScene.fxml")); Parent root = loader.load(); ``` In my FXML file, I have a reference to the CSS like this: ```xml <AnchorPane stylesheets="/path/to/style.css" ...> ``` When I run the application, I don't see any of the styles applied. I even tried using an absolute path and added the following line just after loading the FXML: ```java root.getStylesheets().add(getClass().getResource("/path/to/style.css").toExternalForm()); ``` Despite these attempts, I still get no styling. I checked the console for any errors and I noticed the following warning: ``` Warning: Resource '/path/to/style.css' not found. ``` I've made sure the CSS file is indeed in the correct directory relative to the resources folder of my project. I've also cleaned and rebuilt the project multiple times and even tried restarting Eclipse, but nothing seems to work. Is there something I'm missing here? Any insights on how to troubleshoot this scenario would be greatly appreciated! My development environment is Linux. Am I missing something obvious? Any ideas what could be causing this? This is part of a larger CLI tool I'm building. How would you solve this? Any ideas how to fix this?