Well, if you change every intended span to be on block-level, there will be a huge influence on the rest of your CSS. So I wouldn't do this for each and every text-field.
@sidenote: I wonder what the markup/JS/CSS looked like for this to work in CIS (your existing web-framework)? Maybe we could replicate it from there? regards, Martin On 8/13/07, Carsten Pieper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > perhaps I should be a little more speicific: > > We want to be able to delimit the length of the outputText's text (so that > long text's won't > break our pages' layout). The way we came up to achieve this was to have > something like > display: block; > overflow: hidden; > in our CSS. Without this CSS-tweaking above, a width definition via the > inlineStyle attribute > has no effect (as you'll surely know; I just mention it for those of us > lesser experts...). > If the text now gets longer than the "inlineStylish" width, it still can be > accessed > by/presented to the user via the tooltip (shortDesc). > > Thus, we enhanced the OutputTextRenderer to be styleclass-aware and to set > the tooltip > accordingly (if no other tooltip is defined). > > Do you consider this to be contrary to the "intended spirit" of the > outputText (eh, or even > weird) or is this approach OK? > > Thanks, > Carsten > > > > Adam Winer wrote: > > > > Generally speaking, you don't want to do this for > > outputText: you want to style parent components > > and/or the default font of the skin, not the outputText > > itself. > > > > -- Adam > > > > > > On 8/10/07, Carsten Pieper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> OK, thanks for the speedy answer! > >> > >> So it look's we should build our own renderer... > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/-Trinidad--Skinning---no-CSS-selector-for-tr%3AoutputText--tf4247489.html#a12121153 > Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces
