Depending on how your menus are supposed to be defined, you could statically put them into your markup or dynamically create them by using a ListView or similar.
A nested HTML list structure, as already suggested, usually works best. There are a lot of ready-to-use CSS examples and JavaScript libraries to handle such menus, if you don't want to write it yourself. On 04/08/2012 07:52 AM, msalman wrote: > I thought that the idea behind Wicket is to take care of these things for > Java programmers. I would appreciate if some basic form of menu is made > part of wicket core. Wicket is one of the few frameworks that leave you in full control of your markup, which means that it does not provide a lot of ready-to-include components that include markup and a full style. Instead it works more like "casting your markup to Java components", so your HTML code becomes accessible from Java. There are of course some ready-to-use components in wicket-stuff etc. but less in Wicket core. This way, you are not forced to follow an HTML structure or CSS classes someone else wrote that may clash with the design you had in mind (modal dialogs are one exception, apart from that and trees I can't think of many standard components that use a noticeable amount of their own HTML/CSS). If you want to avoid HTML/CSS as far as possible, other frameworks may fit better. For example, you can avoid HTML/CSS almost completely with Vaadin or GWT if you don't need any custom layout (if you do, it can be a lot of work to style it). And then there are a lot of frameworks that are easier to style but require you to write some HTML/CSS yourself. If you want to stay with Wicket, you should get more comfortable with HTML and CSS (which will take a lot of exercise to get it right) or leave writing templates up to a web designer, which (due to a good separation of templates and code) is far easier in Wicket than with other frameworks. In most cases, you can simply take a design, add Wicket XML tags/attributes to it and start using that template from your code. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
