Placement through CSS

[sisam]

One of the requirements on my current project is that all widgets are placed via RELATIVE placement in CSS. Placements cannot be coded into the Jsp or html.

The layouts that I have created all hardcode the placements into the Java rather than doing it through css. I manually removed the coordinates and sizes that are in pixels and recalculated relative values to put in css.

Is there a setting in GWT that I am missing that will do this for me? If not, is this an upcoming planned feature?

[Eric Clayberg]

Is there a setting in GWT that I am missing that will do this for me?

No.

If not, is this an upcoming planned feature?

No. We have no plans to support anything like that.

[SoulDad57]

Is there a setting in GWT that I am missing that will do this for me?

No.

If not, is this an upcoming planned feature?

No. We have no plans to support anything like that.

This is probably a very popular requirement. It's considered bad form to hard-code positioning information, all layout should go in the CSS.

At a conceptual level it doesn't seem to be that big of a stretch, if widget/panel has a style name, optionally store the positioning info in the style sheet.

Food for thought...

Ciao,

Rick

[Eric Clayberg]

This is probably a very popular requirement. It's considered bad form to hard-code positioning information, all layout should go in the CSS. At a conceptual level it doesn't seem to be that big of a stretch, if widget/panel has a style name, optionally store the positioning info in the style sheet.

In effect, all you are doing is pushing the hard coded positioning info from your Java code to your CSS code. If each widget ends up needing is own unique style in CSS to capture its own unique positioning, where is the benefit in that?

GWT already provides numerous layout types / panels that you can use layout widgets relative to one another without hard coding positions. You don't need to use AbsolutePanel at all, if you don't want to.

GWT Designer also provides a nice CSS editor, if you do want to create custom styles for various widget types.