[Solved] Error: JavaFX runtime components are missing, and are required to run this application in IntelliJ by JetBrains.

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5 min readApr 24, 2022

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If you’re seeing this in your project, you’re probably missing your JavaFX libraries and you need to add them to you IDE. I saw this error in IntelliJ by JetBrains and this tutorial shows how to fix that error in IntelliJ.

My Specs

For IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1 (Community Edition) on Windows 10/11

IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1 (Community Edition)
Build #IC-221.5080.210, built on April 11, 2022
Runtime version: 11.0.14.1+1-b2043.25 amd64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Windows 11 10.0
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 1972M
Cores: 16
Kotlin: 221-1.6.20-release-285-IJ5080.210

My specs:

If you don’t have JavaFX SDK and jar files already, let’s go get them.

Go to the Java FX SDK Downloads page [1].

If you want an older version than the latest version, check the “Include older versions” checkbox. (it was actually hard for me to figure this out lol, the message telling you to do…

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