I believe that from GWT 2.4 on there a Builder class for making more
advances and sophisticated Headers/Footers. But I haven't tried it
myself.
But I am not sure why it won't give you flexible approach for styling?
You can add a class to the row/cell in the render method of your
Header class.
I agree that my approach is a hack (but there was no easy way to solve
it back then).

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:50 PM, kretel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. I saw it and follow similar pattern, but it does not
> give you flexible approach to styling differently both rows in the header.
>
> you also wrote: "[...]  Well I ended up solving this by adding separate
> SearchBoxes above the CellTable-Header and using CSS to align them to the
> Header.  [...]" which I am trying to avoid.
> Imagine you provide different language for your app and table headers
> width/height will change. So css might not work in this case.
>
> Thanks,
> Kris
>
> On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:37:46 PM UTC, Ümit Seren wrote:
>>
>> You can check out this stackoverflow thread for some pointers:
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6422896/celltable-with-custom-header-containing-searchbox-and-focus-problem
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:38:05 PM UTC+1, kretel wrote:
>>>
>>> What I might actually need is to get two rows inserted into theader in
>>> CellTable.
>>> So the header look like this:
>>>
>>> |          | header1 - label1 | header2 - label1 |
>>> +----------+------------------+------------------+
>>> | label    | header1 - label2 | header2 - label2 |
>>> +----------+------------------+------------------+
>>> | foobar   |  1               | image            |
>>>
>>> Is there a way to add an extra header row to a CellTable after adding a
>>> column with one header?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:31:59 AM UTC, kretel wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to build a custom header which have two labels in a header
>>>> and both are styled differently. For example:
>>>>
>>>> | header1 - label1 | header2 - label1 |
>>>> +-----------------------+------------------------+
>>>> | header1 - label2 | header2 - label2 |
>>>>
>>>> Label1 in headers needs to be styled differently than label2. Further
>>>> label2 needs to be able to trigger column sort on a table.
>>>>
>>>> I was looking at examples how to build AbstractCells but still can't see
>>>> how this can be applied to header.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone come up with an approach to build Custom header?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Kris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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