public abstract class Parent
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The base class for all nodes that have children in the scene graph.

This class handles all hierarchical scene graph operations, including adding/removing child nodes, marking branches dirty for layout and rendering, picking, bounds calculations, and executing the layout pass on each pulse.

There are two direct concrete Parent subclasses

extends Node

Since:  JavaFX 2.0