Package eu.webtoolkit.jwt

Class WAnchor

  • Direct Known Subclasses:
    IndexAnchor
    public class WAnchor
extends WContainerWidget
    A widget that represents an HTML anchor (to link to other documents).

    Use an anchor to link to another web page, document, internal application path or a resource (which specifies application-dependent content that may be generated by your application on demand). The anchor may contain a label text, an image, or any other widget (as it inherits from WContainerWidget).

    If you link to a document or external url, and do not want the application to terminate when the user follows the anchor, you must use link.setTarget(LinkTarget::NewWindow). Even for non-HTML documents, this may be important since pending Ajax requests are cancelled if documents are not served within the browser window in certain browsers.

    WAnchor is an inline widget.

    CSS

    The widget corresponds to the HTML <a> tag and does not provide styling. It can be styled using inline or external CSS as appropriate.

    • Method Detail

      • setLink

        public void setLink​(WLink link)
        Sets the link.

        The link may hold a URL, a resource, or an internal path.

        When the link points to a resource, the contents of the link may be generated by your application on demand.

        When the link points to an internal path, activating the anchor will change the application's internal path or open a new session with the given path as initial path). This is the easiest way to let the application participate in browser history, and generate URLs that are bookmarkable and search engine friendly.

      • setText

        public void setText​(java.lang.CharSequence text)
        Sets the label text.

        If no text was previously set, a new WText widget is added using WContainerWidget#addWidget().

      • setWordWrap

        public void setWordWrap​(boolean wordWrap)
        Configures text word wrapping.

        When wordWrap is true, the text set with setText() may be broken up over multiple lines. When wordWrap is false, the text will displayed on a single line, unless the text contains <br /> tags or other block-level tags.

        The default value is true.

        See Also:
        hasWordWrap()

      • isSetFirstFocus

        public boolean isSetFirstFocus()
        Description copied from class: WWidget
        Set focus on the widget's first descendant.

        Set focus on the widget itself, or on a first descendant which can receive focus.

        Returns whether focus could be set.

        Overrides:
        isSetFirstFocus in class WWebWidget

      • propagateSetEnabled

        protected void propagateSetEnabled​(boolean enabled)
        Description copied from class: WWidget
        Propagates that a widget was enabled or disabled through children.

        When enabling or disabling a widget, you usually also want to disable contained children. This method is called by setDisabled() to propagate its state to all children.

        You may want to reimplement this method if they wish to render differently when a widget is disabled. The default implementation will propagate the signal to all children.

        Overrides:
        propagateSetEnabled in class WInteractWidget

      • enableAjax

        protected void enableAjax()
        Description copied from class: WWidget
        Progresses to an Ajax-enabled widget.

        This method is called when the progressive bootstrap method is used, and support for AJAX has been detected. The default behavior will upgrade the widget's event handling to use AJAX instead of full page reloads, and propagate the call to its children.

        You may want to reimplement this method if you want to make changes to widget when AJAX is enabled. You should always call the base implementation.

        Overrides:
        enableAjax in class WWebWidget
        See Also:
        WApplication.enableAjax()