Dojo: The Definitive Guide

Summary

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

• Appreciate the common design challenges (tabbed layouts, for example) that layout dijits alleviate

• Understand the basic features provided by the various layout dijits

• Create arbitrary layouts with the layout dijits both in markup and programmatically

• Use BorderContainer to create flexible, tiled layouts that can arbitrarily resize

• Use ContentPane to lazy load content either as a standalone or as part of another dijit

• Use StackContainer and TabContainer to display multiple pages of data in an application

• Understand some of the considerations with respect to initially displaying layout dijts as being hidden

• Understand the existing limitations of AccordionPane with respect to embedding layout dijits

• Understand the role that the base classes _Container and _Contained play with the layout dijits

Application widgets are coming up next.