Application container vertical Lays out each child component vertically from the top of the application to the
bottom in the specified order horizontal
Lays out each child component horizontally from the left of the application to the right in the specified order absolute Does no automatic layout, and requires you to explicitly define the location of each child component If the Application components layout property is absolute, each child component must have an x and y coordinate defined; otherwise, the component will be displayed in the (0,0) position.
The Box Class
The Box class is the base class for the VBox and HBox classes: The VBox container renders all child display objects vertically. The HBox container renders all child display objects horizontally. The Application object behaves like a VBox by default (vertical layout), but you can also set it to use absolute or horizontal layout. VBox and HBox flow like HTML, only in one direction.