@jgw, rjrjr, > You can use all kinds of inline-block > hackery (since its cross-browser support is poor), but even that breaks down > under various circumstances.
Which is what I was trying to avoid by going completely table-less. > VerticalPanel, on the other hand, is less useful (I find, anyway). You can > almost always just stack up block-level elements in a div (in other words, > just shove most any widget in a FlowPanel) and get the effect of a > VerticalPanel without all the table stuff. However, I hit a dead-end with nesting TabLayoutPanel in a FlowPanel. The dummy latin text in the following ui.xml never shows up (the tabs are there, and clickable, but none of their child content displays): ==== NestedFlowTabLayoutPanel.ui.xml ==== <ui:UiBinder xmlns:ui='urn:ui:com.google.gwt.uibinder' xmlns:g='urn:import:com.google.gwt.user.client.ui' > <ui:style src='NestedTabLayoutPanel.css'/> <g:DockLayoutPanel unit='EM'> <g:north size='5'> <g:HTML><div>north</div></g:HTML> </g:north> <g:east size='2'> <g:HTML><div>east</div></g:HTML> </g:east> <g:south size='2'> <g:HTML><div>south</div></g:HTML> </g:south> <g:west size='12'> <g:HTML><div>west</div></g:HTML> </g:west> <g:center size='2'> <g:FlowPanel> <g:TabLayoutPanel ui:field="tabLayoutPanel" barHeight="28"> <g:tab><g:header>This</g:header> <g:HTML> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. </g:HTML> </g:tab> <g:tab><g:header>That</g:header> <g:HTML> In consequat, odio non tincidunt ornare. </g:HTML> </g:tab> <g:tab><g:header>The Other</g:header> <g:HTML>the other</g:HTML></g:tab> </g:TabLayoutPanel> </g:FlowPanel> </g:center> </g:DockLayoutPanel> </ui:UiBinder> On the other hand, nesting a TabLayoutPanel in a LayoutPanel with layers seems to work better, except for the aforementioned rendering problem of layers sitting right on top of layers. I think I changed my question: Are we seeing a bug in TabLayoutPanel that makes it render improperly if nested in a table-based widget like VerticalPanel or HorizontalPanel? Stuart -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors