Chosen gets cut-off in DockLayoutPanel about gwtchosen HOT 8 CLOSED

Any updates or workarounds for this bug? This widget would be perfect for a project I'm working on, but the drop-down gets clipped by the <g:center> panel.

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FYI - there's a thorough discussion of this problem in a Chosen thread here: harvesthq/chosen#86

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I spent some time fiddling with it and came up with the following hack to workaround the issue:

In a UiBinder configuration such as:

        <g:north size = '80'>
            <g:HTMLPanel ui:field="headerContainer">
                <g:SimplePanel ui:field="header"/>        
                <g:SimplePanel ui:field="searchBar"/>
            </g:HTMLPanel>
        </g:north>

You can tell the north element to allow overflows (i.e. allow the drop-down selector to extend below its bounds) using the following code in the view's constructor:

    headerContainer.getElement().getParentElement().getStyle().setOverflow(Overflow.VISIBLE);

This allows the north panel's contents to spill below the 80 pixel limit set in UIBinder. Note that this works great if your header's content is indeed shorter than 80px, but would cause all sorts of messes if your header's content were larger than its allocated bounds.

Not an ideal solution, nor will it work for everyone, but it solved my issue!

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Definitely, it's an issue I have to resolve but like it is said in the chosen issue you mention, it's not trivial.

Thanks for the workaround !
you can rewrite it by using GQuery like this :
$(headerContainer).parent().css("overflow", "visible");

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Sure thing. Just food for thought: I have a GWT suggestBox adjacent to this gwtchosen box which extends beyond the limits of the DockLayoutPanel with no trouble (and works as expected when scrolled, etc.) I wonder if that code could be the basis for a GWT-based solution to the problem at some point in the future.

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In gwt-bootstrap, the same issue is raised : gwtbootstrap/gwt-bootstrap#231
GWT layout system is simply not playing nice with other css/js frameworks;

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Is there any chance the non-trivial fix from this branch https://github.com/gil/chosen/commits/new_version gets ported to GWTChosen?
GWTChosen is awesome. However, in current state it cannot be used with LayoutPanels at all.

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Not sure it's the good solution

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