I realize this example is rather naive, but I think we can use it as a starting point:
http://nathanwells.net/work/cssTest.html Is that basically what you're looking for? I tested it in IE 8, 7 (via compatibility mode), Firefox, and Chrome. Everything looks fine to me. Again, for IE 6, some hacking may be necessary. On Sep 7, 12:31 pm, Ian Bambury <[email protected]> wrote: > Width is trivial - make sure that everything is set to width:auto; > Height is (AFAIK) impossible without calculating it unless all the borders > and padding and margins are zero, in which case set everything to 100% > (including html, body{width:100%;} > > I didn't understand what Parvez Shah was saying, and AFAICT absolute > positioning is no help if you have margins/borders/padding. > > It's a css thing rather than GWT. > > But if someone has a pure css solution, I will unreservedly join the ranks > of the eternally grateful. > > Ian > > http://examples.roughian.com > > 2009/9/7 David Given <[email protected]> > > > > > > > Nathan Wells wrote: > > > Using absolute positioning: > > > > This method requires that (1) the container must have dimensions set > > > (i.e. "width: x% or px or whatever"). (2) the child box has > > > position:absolute set. > > > If the above are true, you simply set the left, right, top, bottom, > > > width and height attributes of the child. Note that IE will give you > > > some problems sometimes with some of this setup... > > > That's what I did, eventually, but this is requiring me to do layout > > actively in a resize callback. I'd rather not do this as it's slow and > > clunky. > > > It seems fundamentally to be really hard to do top-down layout using CSS > > (where the size of each object is constrained by the object it's > > contained within). This leads to endless problems with full-screen > > layouts. I've already discovered the bug where ScrollPanels just don't > > work properly if they're a child of certain other widgets (such as a > > DeckPanel). > > > Are there any known ways to solve this kind of issue? > > > -- > > ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ─────http://www.cowlark.com───── > > │ > > │ "They laughed at Newton. They laughed at Einstein. Of course, they > > │ also laughed at Bozo the Clown." --- Carl Sagan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
