how to build a textfield with caption and text area in the same line Vaadin

Question

i was implementing a text field to get some user data (new to vaadin)

when i initialize the textfield using

 new TextField("caption"); 

i am using reindeer theme how can i get the text field as this :

caption: textarea //same line

instead of

caption: //different lines
textarea

should i override the default css and how to do it?????
or is there any method availble for this??????

Answer 1

You have to use the FormLayout.

FormLayout fl = new FormLayout();
TextField tf = new TextField("caption"); 
fl.addComponent(tf);

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