GWT Vertical Tabs like iGoogle

Question

Hi

I am using GWT and would like to develop a vertical tab panel like the one in iGoogle.

How can the same be achieved ?

Answer 1

you can use ext-js's vertical tabs - see this demo http://iamtotti.com/playground/js/ext-3.1.1/examples/tabs/tabs.html

there is a gwt port of ext-js which you can use : http://code.google.com/p/gwt-ext/

Smart gwt also has a vertical tab implementation (its different to gwt-ext's) - http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase and search for orientation on the left menu.

Answer 2

I think what you're looking for is the TabLayoutPanel (scroll down a bit). It works great and it's a vanilla GWT widget, no third party libraries required.