On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Ben Tomasini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ooops, Hit enter too soon. Here is a resend > > > I am trying to use the Grid component to render an HTML table with > very specific CSS to make the table look like a table which is > currently being rendered with the displaytag library in a Struts2 > application. Our current style sheet uses CSS selectors based on the > simple element name without any classes. This works well with > displaytag as it's default behavior is to output a simple table > without any CSS classes. > > I am having two issues: > > 1) Applying styles. > > My preference would like to simply apply our existing styles to an > HTML table created by Tapestry without having to wrestle with the > default styles in place. I looks like Tapestry's Grid component > specifies a total of 23 CSS attributes among its various styles for > the Grid and related components. I know we can override these > attributes in our stylesheets, but this puts a rather annoying burden > on our CSS developer. Another option would be to remove the default > tapestry stylesheet via application configuration, but this would have > negative side effects for other components such as the exception page. > Is there a way to have the Grid component not render any style > classes or to use style classes we specify? Any other ideas would be > > appreciated.
This should be easier, but currently is not. One option would be to subclass Grid as, say, PlainGrid. You could then provide a PlainGrid.tml file and remove the @class attributes that are in place there. > > 2) Changing pager display > > Is there a way to override the rendering of the pager, perahaps by > specifiying an alternate block to use? > > With these in mind, am I better off not using the Grid component and > creating my own Table component instead? > > Ben > > You could use pagerposition="none" and supply your own component to perform the paging. > > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Ben Tomasini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to use the Grid component to render an HTML table with > > very specific CSS to make the table look like a table which is > > currently being rendered with the displaytag library in a Struts2 > > application. Our current style sheet uses CSS selectors based on the > > simple element name without any classes. This works well with > > displaytag as it's default behavior is to output a simple table > > without any CSS classes. > > > > I am having two issues: > > > > 1) Applying styles. > > > > My preference would like to simply apply our existing styles to an > > HTML table created by Tapestry without having to wrestle with the > > default styles in place. I looks like Tapestry's Grid component > > specifies a total of 23 CSS attributes among its various styles for > > the Grid and related components. I know we can override these > > attributes in our stylesheets, but this puts a rather annoying burden > > on our CSS developer. Another option would be to remove the default > > tapestry stylesheet via application configuration, but this would have > > negative side effects for other components such as the exception page. > > Is there a way to have the Grid component not render any style > > classes? Any other ideas would be appreciated. > > > > 2) Changing pager display > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator Apache Tapestry and Apache HiveMind --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
