Problem with FormLayoutCell Width (EP602)

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Hi,

I have a question regarding setting the width of a FormLayoutCell:

If the width of a FormLayoutCell is set to a width in pixels, the width is not rendered correctly in the browser. If the width of the parent FormLayout is set, the width of the cell is set correctly.

My investigations have shown that for the cell in the HTML code the width is set with the style attribute (e.g. <td style="width:150"> ). The width of the layout is set with the "width" attribute of the "table" tag (e.g. <table width="500"> ). Setting the width of the FormLayout can be a workaround in some cases (even so it is not very nice), but the problem I have found here is that the cells which have not a widht set are distributed more or less evenly over the remaining size of the table. This is very ugly.

The best solution I have found so far, is to set the style sheet attribute table-layout to fixed (eg. <table style="table-layout:fixed"> ). This works very well and seems to be the clean way. Unfortunately I couldnt find a way to set this in the FormLayout API.

Due to the fact that the FormLayout is THE HTMLB layout I guess that I share my problem with other developer. So, I would be glad for any ideas.

Regards,

Kai