CSS

I am trying to understand the purpose and why GWT has made it so dam painful to implement CSS in GWT.

How is that for an opening line? :D

Based on the rather profuse rendered HTML, you are kinda directed down the path of UiBinder. Ok, I can kinda follow that. Docs not the best, but once you sorta figure it out, I can see how to apply it as a general set of rules. I can almost explain it to other developers.

Anyway, CSS files are a pain to maintain; as a result I and many others are used to splitting CSS files in many smaller files to facilitate maintenance.
Further, the way the UiBinder works you have to replicate and repeat style elements to include them or use a complicated and obscure ClientBundle system which does not even work with the GWT Designer!
Not only is this tedious, but it replicates huge amounts of code, makes things harder to change.
As a last point, it overrides any generic styling I have applied across all elements. Body.....

I have to be missing something. This seems like incredible overkill and there is no way I can explain all the linkages to junior developers who get to maintain code or assist on projects.

Tim

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