General questions on TextField & RichTextArea...

[Asela (Asela Neligama)]

Hi all,

I’m Asela, a software developer form Sri Lanka.
I started using Vaadin recently & find it very interesting.

I have a few general questions & I would like to seek your assistance in resolving them.
They are as follows.

1. Do we have a way of setting the Content Type for a TextField ? [
   as in myLabel.setContentMode(Label.CONTENT_XHTML) for a Label
   ]

2. How do I specify the X & Y coordinates for a RichTextArea?

Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Asela.

[Jouni1 (Jouni Koivuviita)]

Hi Asela,

@Asela Neligama

1. Do we have a way of setting the Content Type for a TextField ? [
   as in myLabel.setContentMode(Label.CONTENT_XHTML) for a Label
   ]

No, since the HTML input element doesn’t support any other rendering than plaintext. CONTENT_PRE is possible to accomplish, but RAW and XHTML not so much. You’d need to create a custom widget for those, and the end results would probably look somewhat like the RichTextArea.

@Asela Neligama

2. How do I specify the X & Y coordinates for a RichTextArea?

What do you mean by coordinates? Do you wish to position the editor itself, or some content that lives inside the editor?

[Asela (Asela Neligama)]

Hi Jouni,

Thanks for the replay.

What do you mean by coordinates? Do you wish to position the editor itself, or some content that lives inside the editor?

Yes I wanted to position the editor itself.
However, it was a stupid question to be asked in the first place, coz I found the answer just 15mins after I posted the question. My bad…

Anyways, now I’m confronted with a new problem that I’ve already opened another thread.

http://vaadin.com/forum/-/message_boards/message/143059

It would be much appreciated if you could have a look into this.

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Asela