Question

I need to set a label to have some special characters, I’m trying:

Label label = new Label();
label.setText("•");
label.setText("♦");
label.setText("★");

I’m not seeing the characters rendered though (firefox 17). The output html looks like this:

<div class="gwt-Label"></div>

Is there a different way we need to set the text to those characters?

Answer 1

I do no think it is possible with Label widget. You should be using HTML class which extends Label.

SafeHtmlBuilder builder = new SafeHtmlBuilder();
builder.appendEscaped("★");
HTML widget = new HTML();
widget.setHTML(builder.toSafeHtml());
RootPanel.get().add(widget);

Also ensure best practice of using SafeHtmlBuilder class.