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Andrey Agibalov
Andrey Agibalov

Reputation: 7694

GWT g:Anchor doesn't show up as a link

I've just started learning UiBinder approach and having a stupid problem with g:Anchor. Whenever I construct Anchor directly from Java code, it's displayed as a "normal link", so it's blue, underlined and when I move mouse pointer to it, it gets switched from I-Beam to normal arrow.

When I use UiBinder and define my UI like this:

<!DOCTYPE ui:UiBinder SYSTEM "http://dl.google.com/gwt/DTD/xhtml.ent">
<ui:UiBinder xmlns:ui="urn:ui:com.google.gwt.uibinder"
    xmlns:g="urn:import:com.google.gwt.user.client.ui">
    <g:Anchor ui:field="anchor" />
</ui:UiBinder>

The result I get is a blue text, but it's neither underlined nor mouse pointer becomes normal arrow when I move it to this link. The only solution I've found is

<!DOCTYPE ui:UiBinder SYSTEM "http://dl.google.com/gwt/DTD/xhtml.ent">
<ui:UiBinder xmlns:ui="urn:ui:com.google.gwt.uibinder"
    xmlns:g="urn:import:com.google.gwt.user.client.ui">
    <g:Anchor ui:field="anchor" href="javascript:;" />
</ui:UiBinder>

Is there a "correct" approach to achieve the same behavior without copypasting that href attribute everywhere?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2683

Answers (1)

Thomas Broyer
Thomas Broyer

Reputation: 64561

See http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=4502

But the thing is that you shouldn't use an Anchor if you don't have an href to set on it. If you want something that looks and feels like an anchor but doesn't link to some URL, then use a Label or HTML with the appropriate styling and a ClickHandler; don't abuse anchors for things that aren't links.

Upvotes: 7

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