Re: gwt and css

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 14:19, gwt-newbie <jbergmanster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Typically, I use ids and id scoped styles for child elements of that id to
> control how they look when contained by that id.  However, this doesn't seem
> to work well in gwt. There appears to be no support to set fixed ids for
> widgets in the ui binder other than debugId. Also does the ui:style element
> even support # styles since it mangles names of classes?
>
> How do gwt veterans style their views? It appears that with gwt one is
> forced to use classes to style most things and then setting classes on child
> widgets to change the look based on the container it appears in.
>
> Thanks for any guidance on this matter.

What's the reason you don't want to use classes?

.theme1 .myWidget {
background-color: red;
}

.theme2 .myWidget {
background-color: black;
}

The above code snippet seemed a lot easer than using IDs

-- Joe

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