GWT cannot know how many instances of your component you'll instantiate in the lifetime of your application, so it doesn't make it easy to give widgets an ID. It's still possible though (myWidget.getElement().setId("myId"), which supposes you know what you're doing).
See also https://github.com/stubbornella/csslint/wiki/Disallow-ids-in-selectors (please read the linked blog post, and also follow links from there) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/xhCMtE-6eT8J. 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.