Enhance the appearance of div elements in GWT/HTML with custom styling

I am relatively new to GWT and have been exploring various options, but I have not yet found a solution to my issue.

The challenge at hand involves developing a function schedule system in GWT, where I am working on designing the frontend. We currently have 4 classes (along with a main class) for different "views" on the webpage - the schedule, navigator, bookmark sections, and search. My query is whether it is possible for each of these classes (or widgets) to inherit the position of a div class that I created using html/css.

When generating the current html/css from GWT, it results in the following:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="Main.css">
    <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="main/main.nocache.js"></script>
  </head>

  <body>

    <!-- OPTIONAL: include this if you want history support -->
    <iframe src="javascript:''" id="__gwt_historyFrame" tabIndex='-1' style="position:absolute;width:0;height:0;border:0"></iframe>
  </body>
</html>

I am curious if there is a way to instruct GWT to produce a div for each of the classes that can be nested into different css/html code that has been created?

For instance, adding a navigation bar above the calendar section.

javajqueryhtmlcssgwt

Answer №1

Absolutely, your perspectives can directly adopt the div characteristics... assign an ID to your attributes, specifically those that will inherit the positions on the main page.

Answer №2

My current project involves working with the GWT Framework and I've found that it's important not to mix things up. GWT allows for creating the entire view in Java (including CSS styling, although it's generally cleaner to define this in a separate stylesheet). For more information on layouts in GWT, you can refer to this page: GWT Project - Layouts

In essence, when developing with GWT, your classes should extend the Widget class. Once this is done, you can create containers such as DockLayoutPanel. Below is a quick example taken from here:

public class DockLayoutPanelExample implements EntryPoint {

 public void onModuleLoad() {
        // Add five widgets to a DockLayoutPanel in different directions, using 'em' units for layout.
        DockLayoutPanel p = new DockLayoutPanel(Unit.EM);
        p.addNorth(new HTML("north"), 2);
        p.addSouth(new HTML("south"), 2);
        p.addEast(new HTML("east"), 2);
        p.addWest(new HTML("west"), 2);
        p.add(new HTML("center"));

        // Attach the LayoutPanel to the RootLayoutPanel to handle resize events.
        RootLayoutPanel rp = RootLayoutPanel.get();
        rp.add(p);
      }
    }

Instead of adding HTML objects to the layout, consider adding your own custom objects that extend Widget.

In GWT, each Java object has a corresponding equivalent in HTML or Javascript, and this conversion happens during compilation.

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