Creates a new view that represents an html box. This can be used for a number of elements.

elem	the element to create a view for
axis	either View.X_AXIS or View.Y_AXIS

Performs layout for the minor axis of the box (i.e. the axis orthoginal to the axis that it represents). The results of the layout (the offset and span for each children) are placed in the given arrays which represent the allocations to the children along the minor axis.

targetSpan	the total span given to the view, which whould be used to layout the childre.
axis	the axis being layed out
offsets	the offsets from the origin of the view for each of the child views; this is a return value and is filled in by the implementation of this method
spans	the span of each child view; this is a return value and is filled in by the implementation of this method

Renders using the given rendering surface and area on that surface. This is implemented to delegate to the css box painter to paint the border and background prior to the interior.

g	the rendering surface to use
allocation	the allocated region to render into
See also	paint

Gets the alignment.

axis	may be either X_AXIS or Y_AXIS
return	the alignment

Determines the maximum span for this view along an axis.

axis	may be either View.X_AXIS or View.Y_AXIS
return	the span the view would like to be rendered into >= 0; typically the view is told to render into the span that is returned, although there is no guarantee; the parent may choose to resize or break the viewthe span the view would like to be rendered into >= 0; typically the view is told to render into the span that is returned, although there is no guarantee; the parent may choose to resize or break the view
Throws	IllegalArgumentException: for an invalid axis type

Determines the minimum span for this view along an axis.

axis	may be either View.X_AXIS or View.Y_AXIS
return	the span the view would like to be rendered into >= 0; typically the view is told to render into the span that is returned, although there is no guarantee; the parent may choose to resize or break the viewthe span the view would like to be rendered into >= 0; typically the view is told to render into the span that is returned, although there is no guarantee; the parent may choose to resize or break the view
Throws	IllegalArgumentException: for an invalid axis type

Establishes the parent view for this view. This is guaranteed to be called before any other methods if the parent view is functioning properly.

This is implemented to forward to the superclass as well as call the #setPropertiesFromAttributes() method to set the paragraph properties from the css attributes. The call is made at this time to ensure the ability to resolve upward through the parents view attributes.

parent

the new parent, or null if the view is being removed from a parent it was previously added to

Determines the preferred span for this view along an axis.

axis	may be either View.X_AXIS or View.Y_AXIS
return	the span the view would like to be rendered into >= 0; typically the view is told to render into the span that is returned, although there is no guarantee; the parent may choose to resize or break the viewthe span the view would like to be rendered into >= 0; typically the view is told to render into the span that is returned, although there is no guarantee; the parent may choose to resize or break the view
Throws	IllegalArgumentException: for an invalid axis type

Gets the resize weight.

axis	may be either X_AXIS or Y_AXIS
return	the weight
Throws	IllegalArgumentException: for an invalid axis