How to replace element with my GWT widget?

Question

Is it possible to replace known html element with my widget component? (Emphasis on the word \'replace\', I don\'t want to put the widget in th

Answer 1

I would suggest you try something like this...

then in somewhere create a widget (e.g. textBox widget)

TextBox tb = new TextBox();

After you have created the widget you can get it's DOM object by using tb.getElement() (I'm not sure that's the correct method name, but it's definitely something like getElement)

After that you could use

Element parent = Document.getElementById('tmpEl').getParent();
parent.removeChild(Document.getElementById('tmpEl'));
parent.appendChild(tb.getElement());

One more thing that add() does is call Widget.onAttach() on the widget that is being added to the panel. onAttach does some work to register the widget to receive events.

You could try calling tb.onAttach(); It might also be necessary to call RootPanel.detachOnWindowClose(tb); (as mentioned in a previous post)