set MainConatiner.setSpacing /setPadding I guess that will help you now you can set Child Container's size as 100%
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:30 AM, David Given <d...@cowlark.com> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a recurring problem that keeps hitting me with various projects. > There must be a way around it, but I have yet to find one... > > I have a container of a fixed size. I want to put in this another > widget, and have that widget take up all the available space --- *with > its border, padding and margins inside the container*. > > This seems to be much harder than it looks. The CSS width and height > properties affect the size of the content, and the border, padding and > margins are always drawn *outside* that box, so just setting the size to > "100%", "100%" results in my widget being slightly larger than its > container. I can't use absolute positioning for this because I don't > know how big anything is in pixels, and CSS doesn't support using things > like "100% - 1em" in a dimension. > > This is an utterly basic thing to want, but I have yet to find a way > round it --- what am I missing here? > > - -- > ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── > │ > │ "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who > │ know we don't." --- Bjarne Stroustrup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iD8DBQFKotFcf9E0noFvlzgRAmbiAJ4mN9mqjfNMpfSlW65z3gFHlxVP/gCglOEY > sDqSWeGk6lEk4jZoVDQASvM= > =Lzdt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
