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GWT - Best way to implement a horizontal navbar

What is the best way to implement a horizontal navbar in GWT? Using a MenuBar, a TabLayoutPanel, or coding something by hand, that is take a bunch of divs an float them within another div? If played around using TabLayoutPanel but wasn't able to style it to fit my needs.

EDIT

Here's what I intend to do: I have a MasterPage, laid out using a DockLayoutPanel. I have a header, footer, and a content area. After login, the content are should be filled with some sort of navigation and an area showing some panel with some widgets.

Solution

  • The problem with MenuBar (and MenuItems) is its rendering. GWT is rendering everything regarding menus as table and bunch of s and s. This usually messes up the layout of the rest of the page since GWT 2.0+ uses s for most of the widgets.

    So, until GWT comes up with the "Layout" version for the MenuBar custom solution is probably the best solution.