How to align header/footer text in cell table

[Thomas Trebbien Pedersen]

Hi,

How do I set the horizontal alignment for headers/footers in a
CellTable?

I want to right align the text like I can do with a Column:

someColumn.setHorizontalAlignment(HasHorizontalAlignment.ALIGN_RIGHT);

Isn't something similar possible for headers/footers - can anyone
please help.

Thanks.

\Thomas

[Thomas Trebbien Pedersen]

Hi,

Can someone please help.

On 7 Okt., 10:28, Thomas Trebbien Pedersen

[Craig Mitchell]

Star the issue and hope Google adds the functionality:
http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=6500

On Oct 11, 7:58 pm, Thomas Trebbien Pedersen

[Craig Mitchell]

Actually, I just got it working by creating my own HTMLHeader and HTMLCell.  Here it is: 

1. The HTMLHeader class: 

import com.google.gwt.user.cellview.client.Header;

public class HTMLHeader extends Header<String> {

private String html;

public HTMLHeader(String html) {

super(new HTMLCell());

this.html = html;

}

@Override

public String getValue() {

return html;

}

}

2. The HTMLCell class:

import com.google.gwt.cell.client.AbstractCell;

import com.google.gwt.safehtml.shared.SafeHtmlBuilder;

public class HTMLCell extends AbstractCell<String> {

public HTMLCell() {

}

@Override

public void render(Context context, String value, SafeHtmlBuilder sb) {

if (value != null) {

sb.appendHtmlConstant(value);

}

}

}

3. Add the HTMLHeader aligning it to the right: 
myTable.addColumn(myColumn, new HTMLHeader("<div align=\"right\">Hooray</div>")); 

And you're done!

[Carl]

I will definitely try this out.  Thanks for sharing... Though, I still believe this should be inherent behavior for the Column Header itself.

[Thomas Trebbien Pedersen]

Cool that works - thanks. And Google comon and implement this please.

[Thomas Broyer]

On Thursday, November 3, 2011 2:01:44 PM UTC+1, Thomas Trebbien Pedersen wrote:

And Google comon and implement this please.

See http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=6500

And there's also the HeaderBuilder if you need more control (total control actually). 

[Craig Mitchell]

Big thanks to Thomas and Google for once again listening and implementing!  I look forward to using this in the next release.

[Vivek Dudani]

Hey Craig,

can you please tell me how can do the similar thing for CheckboxCell in the header column.
I need to allign the CheckboxCell to left in the Header column.

Thanks

[Vivek Dudani]

Hey guys,

can u tell me how to fix the issue in case of CheckboxCell.
I need to allign the CheckboxCell in the header column. how can i do that?

Thanks

[Hamzeh]

It may help:

SafeHtmlHeader header = new SafeHtmlHeader(new SafeHtml() {

@Override
public String asString() {
return "<p style=\"text-align:center;\">My Column Header</p>";
}
});
myCellTable.addColumn( myCol, header);

Clearly you can change 'center' with your favorite align.