It would be very nice if we could add widgets to MenuItems instead of
using setting html. This would make formatting of custom menu items a
lot easier.
I just tried to add menu items that display text + an aligned image
and it took some time to find out how to do that (nesting a table).
On Jan 20, 4:26 pm, John LaBanca <jlaba...@google.com> wrote:
> The fact that MenuBar uses a table to render itself is just an
> implementation detail, and sometimes we abstract away the DOM implementation
> of a widget. Personally, I think adding a setHorizontal/VerticalAlignment()
> would be a little confusing because people might assume it would set the
> alignment of the widget itself (as in position to widget) as opposed to
> setting the alignment of the MenuItems in the cells. There are other table
> based widgets that do not have these methods for the same reason, such as
> StackPanel. Also, you can always set styles in code using the Element
> methods:
>
> myMenu.getElement().getStyle().setProperty("name", "value");
>
>
>
> Still, I'll be interested to see what other contributors think. Maybe there
> is a use case for this method in other widgets as well.
>
> Thanks,
> John LaBanca
> jlaba...@google.com
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM, jack.yang <jackyang0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Since this widget is a Div which contains a Table, why it do not have
> > a method to set its cell alignment? This is not the only widget which
> > consists of a table but do not have a method to set alignment.
>
> > I think this is not a good design. For some widget developers set
> > alignment by code while for others they can only set alignment using
> > CSS.
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