I think you missed the part where Thomas advices you to "ensure your CSS for the table has "table- layout: fixed" ".
I also recommend that you try it here: http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_tab_table-layout.asp On Apr 16, 11:07 am, denis56 <denis.ergashb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your reply Thomas, > > Your suggestion regarding overflow has led to a solution. After > reading it I have realized that HorizontalPanel within a FlexTable's > cell becomes effectively a table, but so do the Labels that are added > to HorizontalPanel. So I just applied a {overflow: hidden} style to > the innermost table cell - to the Label - and it works! So happy. > > In respect to fixing FlexTable cells' width. I am so far stuck with > Having each single cell a Label/Panel within with a fixed width. The > FlexTable itself has a fixed width defined, but what happens is, if > some of the cells contain no information they get squeezed by the > other ones, regardless of the {width:xxx} set on them. > > On 14 Apr., 00:39, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 13 avr, 23:41, denis56 <denis.ergashb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > have already spent some hours trying to set column width in flextable > > > to a fixed width in pixels. Could maybe someone share experiences how > > > that is achievable (target browser IE 6). I tried with width attribute > > > in css, but its not very responsive, especially when cells are empty. > > > Doing that now through putting label with predefined fixed width, but > > > that is so ugly and wasteful. > > > You should "just" have to ensure your CSS for the table has "table- > > layout: fixed" (hint: it'll also speed up the rendering of the table, > > explicitly telling the browser to not account for the cells' content > > width) > > I don't think I had a problem with empty cells, but I'm not even sure > > I ever had to deal with empty cells... > > > > And one more thing. I have a HorizontalPanel in one of the flextable > > > cells with 3 labels inside, is there a way to apply "overflow:hidden" > > > on the last widget? Right now it is being wrapped to the next line, > > > although overflow: hidden is set. > > > Hmm, it probably depends on the size (intrinsic or explicit) of the > > HorizontalPanel, if you set the width of the HorizontalPanel with an > > absolute unit (pixels, for example), you should IMO put > > overflow:hidden on the flextable's cell, *not* the HorizontalPanel's > > last cell. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
