Question

I have

HTML test = new HTML( "myhtml" ); 

which generates

<div class="gwt-HTML">MyHTML</div>

I want to set the primary style using this:

HTML.setStylePrimaryName(null, "mystyle");

What must be the first Paramter? Null is not working.

Answer 1

The UIObject.setStylePrimaryName static method is for when you have to work with Elements (you’ll also note that it’s protected, it really is an implementation detail of widgets and other UI objects).

You’d want to use the setStylePrimaryName instance method:

test.setStylePrimaryName("mystyle");

But actually, most of the time, you’d better use addStyleName, to keep the gwt-HTML class name around (or in the case of a TextBox for instance, keep the gwt-TextBox and gwt-TextBox-readonly; if you change the primary name to mystyle, you’ll then have mystyle-readonly instead of gwt-TextBox-readonly, it is sometimes desirable, but most of the time it’s not):

text.addStyleName("mystyle");