JavaFX label contents not showing in gridpane - grid

Why is myLabel content not showing in my gridpane, it is strange, everything else is showing..
I have tried everything I can. any help please
here are snippets of my code and attached photo of the result
#Override public void start(Stage stage) {
Group root = new Group();
Scene scene = new Scene(root, 1180, 650);
stage.setScene(scene);
stage.setTitle("Prayer Time Display");
scene.getStylesheets().addAll(this.getClass().getResource("style.css").toExternalForm());
GridPane Mainpane = new GridPane();
scene.setRoot(Mainpane);
Mainpane.setGridLinesVisible(true);
Mainpane.setId("Mainpane");
GridPane prayertime_pane = new GridPane();
prayertime_pane.setId("prayertime_pane");
prayertime_pane.setPadding(new Insets(20, 20, 20, 20));
prayertime_pane.setAlignment(Pos.BASELINE_CENTER);
prayertime_pane.setVgap(7);
prayertime_pane.setHgap(35);
GridPane moon_pane = new GridPane();
moon_pane.setGridLinesVisible(true);
moon_pane.setPadding(new Insets(10, 10, 10, 10));
moon_pane.setAlignment(Pos.BASELINE_CENTER);
moon_pane.setVgap(10);
moon_pane.setHgap(10);
myLabel.setText("hello");
moon_pane.setConstraints(myLabel, 0, 0);
moon_pane.getChildren().add(myLabel);
ImageView Moon_img = new ImageView(new Image(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/Images/Full_Moon.png")));
Moon_img.setFitWidth(100);
Moon_img.setFitHeight(100);
moon_pane.add(Moon_img, 1, 0);
Text next_moon_text = new Text("13/02");
next_moon_text.setId("prayer-text-english");
moon_pane.setHalignment(next_moon_text,HPos.LEFT);
moon_pane.setValignment(next_moon_text,VPos.CENTER);
moon_pane.setConstraints(next_moon_text, 2, 0);
moon_pane.getChildren().add(next_moon_text);
Mainpane.add(moon_pane, 8, 1,3,2);

Your label does appear on the scene but it has been shrinked to the extent that only the text overflow characters are rendered - "..."
To ensure that the label is always rendered with a fixed width that will fit all the text you can force the minumum and maximum widths to be the same as the preferred width:
myLabel.setMinWidth(Region.USE_PREF_SIZE);
myLabel.setMaxWidth(Region.USE_PREF_SIZE);
If you want to retain the dynamic sizing you can always use Scenic View (http://fxexperience.com/scenic-view/) to analyse your scene graph and determine which nodes or containers take up all the space or have size limits

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To overcome your issue remove these lines,
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And,
bp.getChildren().addAll(hb1,hb2,gp);
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Before :
After :
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I only started teaching myself JavaFX last night but can't seem to figure out where I am going wrong, or find a solution to my problem.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
In your code replace : hBox.setMaxWidth(750);
with:
hBox.setMaxWidth(Region.USE_COMPUTED_SIZE);
The problem was that after resizing your hbox, the width was still 750 px long
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