Question

I’m using gwtquery to manipulate the pages, i found in jQuery i can use:

$('body').removeClass().addClass(myClass);

But seem gwtquery does not provide the same removeClass() method, it only has removeClass(String... classes). It is not quite useful if i want to remove all classes of the Element without knowing the names beforehands.

Anybody who know the counterpart of this method?

Answer 1

Short answer:

• Use setClassName("") on GWT’s element class

  $('gwt-Label').widgets().get(0).getElement().setClassName("")

• Or, set the className attribute directly

  $("gwt-Label").attr("className","")

Long answer:

So, I looked through the two implementations, and they seem to do two different things.

1. jQuery replaces the className property of the dom element if there are no classes to remove.
2. GQuery just iterates the classes, and removes them one by one, delegating to GWT’s Element dom class. Behind the scenes, this uses the className property.