To answer my own question:
GWT was taking the right margin of the element and subtracting this
from the width of it's container and then setting this as the width in
the inline style. This seems to not be specific to DockLayoutPanel but
it is specific to IE6.
So for example, our uibinder xml looked something like this
<g:DockLayoutPanel unit="PX">
<g:west size="200">
<a:TabList ui:field="tabList"/>
</g:west>
<g:center>
....
</g:center>
</g:DockLayoutPanel>
When viewing the DOM using the IE developer toolbar, TabList's element
had a right margin of 20px for some reason. So I guess this is why GWT
would place style="width:180px" on the TabList's element. We fixed it
by explicitly setting the right margin to 0.
On Dec 30, 4:47 pm, ryan <ryanack...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When viewing our GWT application in IE 6, we've noticed some weird
> behavior for the children of a DockLayoutPanel.
>
> The width of the immediate children of the DockLayoutPanel (the ones
> in north, south, east, west) gets set explicitly by GWT no matter what
> you do. This only happens in IE6.
>
> It's a big problem because it makes our app look like crap in IE 6 and
> it's completely opaque to the developer. It overrides any width that
> we set in Java and we can't find where it's happening. Since it's
> browser specific we figure it must be some kind of compilation rule
> for IE6.
>
> Is anyone familiar with this problem? Any tips on overriding this
> behavior?
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