How do I dynamically show and hide an entire TabContainer using DOJO?

Question

DOJO seems to have some quirks here. I specifically need to have the TabContainer hidden when the page loads, but then become visible after the user clicks a button. The fir

Answer 1

Old thread but I experienced this same issue and this is how I solved it. First, you cannot use display:none. Per the folks at DOJO, you have to use visibility:hidden with dijits or this will not work. So, you want this:

Then, to show this you do the following:

dojo.style("tabContainer", "visibility", "visible");

Now, the problem this poses is what you already found out. This reserves a invisible div in your viewport that is 500px wide. So if you are using a bordercontainer, there will be this empty 500px gap in your page. To resolve this, I had to create my dijits programatically and inject them into a empty div, rather than do what you did and do it declaratively. Hope this helps someone out there.