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This chapter gives an overview of layout components, starting with their history, and then gives more specific description of the components together with some examples.
Layout components are used to place other components to specific places in the
user interface. You can use plain Java to accomplish sophisticated component
layouting. Another option is to use CustomLayout class
and let the web page designers take responsibility of component layouting
using their own set of tools.
Layouts are often strongly coupled with themes that specify various layout attributes such as backgrounds, borders, alignment, and so on. Themes are detailed in Chapter 7, Themes.