A very popular subject indeed.
I think it's gonna get addressed sooner or later but for the time
being check out these thoughts:
http://tinyurl.com/z3k2d
and Ron's*
*http://www.tutim.net/wiki/index.php/Tapestry_Css

and the Style component from
http://tapfx.sourceforge.net/


John Hendrikx wrote:

> I'm building my first Tapestry Component and I'm trying to encapsulate
> some common HTML components for my applications into a Tapestry
> Component.  The component also needs a few styles to look and function
> properly, and I'd like these styles to be included on the page
> whenever the component is used automatically (just like the javascript
> which is included automatically when I use my component).
>
> The component so far works great, but I cannot seem to also make it
> include a stylesheet.
>
> On the Tapestry site I found this:
>
> > Often, a component must be packaged up with images, stylesheets or
> > other resources (collectively termed "assets") that are needed at
> > runtime. A reference to such an asset can be created using the <asset>
> > element of the page or component specification. For example:
> >   
> >  <asset name="logo" path="images/logo_200.png"/>
> >
> >  <component id="image" type="Image">
> >    <binding name="image" value="asset:logo"/>
> >  </component>
>
> However, I cannot figure out how to "package stylesheets" with my
> component.  I've tried the following:
>
>   <asset name="css" path="MenuPicker.css"/>
>
>   <component id="stylesheet" type="Any">
>     <binding name="stylesheet" value="asset:css"/>
>   </component>
>
> This however doesn't do anything, I get no errors, and I see no
> changes.   For one thing, I'm not sure what the "type" parameter
> should be for including a stylesheet.  I don't see any Stylesheet or
> CSS component, like there is for Image.
>
> I've checked the tapestry site, googled, and looked at the last few
> months of posts on this mailinglist, but I couldn't find anything that
> sheds light on this.  I'd be grateful for a pointer in the right
> direction :)
>
> Here's the full component specification I'm using:
>
> <component-specification
> class="com.bmw.tapestry.components.menupicker.MenuPicker"
> allow-body="no">
>
>   <parameter name="displayName"/>
>   <parameter name="id" property="idParameter" default-value="id"/>
>          
>   <inject property="script" type="script" object="MenuPicker.script"/>
>
>   <asset name="css" path="MenuPicker.css"/>
>
>   <component id="stylesheet" type="Any">
>     <binding name="stylesheet" value="asset:css"/>
>   </component>
> </component-specification>
>
> The files are all in the same package
> (com.bmw.tapestry.components.menupicker); MenuPicker.java, jwc,
> properties, css, script and js
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --John
>
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