JavaFX Spanning Columns with TextArea
<p>I have a simple JavaFX application that has several textfields and 1 textarea in a gridpane, problem i'm having is that if place the textarea under any of the textfields they get resized to the size of the textarea. I need a way to make the textarea span multiple columns of the grid without affecting the other controls. this is how I am adding the controls:</p>

<pre><code>grid.setRowIndex(lblDesc, 3);
grid.setColumnIndex(lblDesc, 2);
grid.setRowIndex(tfDesc, 4);
grid.setColumnIndex(tfDesc,2);    
grid.getChildren().addAll(lblDesc, tfDesc);
</code></pre>

<p>Thanks
Rick</p>
