[Seaside] Re: Oddities with WATableReport

[Avi Bryant]

On Oct 16, 2004, at 8:16 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:

>
> On Oct 16, 2004, at 7:58 PM, Yar Hwee Boon wrote:
>
>> In WAPresenter>>renderWithContext:, the renderer is obtained using 
>> WAHtmlRenderer>>context:callbacks: which returns a renderer with an 
>> empty attributes collection. Thus, it seems that attributes cannot be 
>> set for all WAComponent/WAPresenter subclasses. Does anyone have an 
>> idea if this is how its supposed to be?
>
> That is how it's supposed to be, although I'm not sure if it's the 
> best idea or not.  Currently, only a minimal RenderingContext is 
> actually passed between components, and each creates its own instance 
> of WAHtmlRenderer.  The idea here is that each component can define 
> its own rendering mechanism - HtmlRenderer, the new Canvas stuff, some 
> template system, and so on.  However, maybe this is unnecessary 
> flexibility?

By the way, Sam, a quick suggestion as to how to fix your immediate 
problem - rather than adding a CSS class to the table itself, what 
about wrapping it in a div?  So, rather than

html cssClass: 'foo'.
html render: report

use

html divClass: 'foo' with: report

And then in your CSS, instead of

table.foo {...}

use
div.foo table {...}

Avi