How to replace element with my GWT widget?

Question

Is it possible to replace known html element with my widget component? (Emphasis on the word \'replace\', I don\'t want to put the widget in th

Answer 1

It seems that calling widget.onAttach() after inserting widget into DOM does the trick.

class MyWidget extends Composite
{
  ...

  public void attach()
  {
    /* Widget.onAttach() is protected
     */
    onAttach();

    /* mandatory for all widgets without parent widget
     */
    RootPanel.detachOnWindowClose(this);
  }
}

tmpEl.getParentElement().replaceChild(myWidget.getElement(), tmpEl);
myWidget.attach();

Credit goes to André at Google Web Toolkit group.

I still wonder though why there is no RootPanel.addAndReplaceElement(Widget, Element), similar to HTMLPanel.addAndReplaceElement(Widget, Element).