Is it possible to use declarative markup in a template that is just constructed of dojo widgets. I've found dojo.parse.parser(element); that will scan all the child contents of the that domNode and create the widgets but it doesn't work if the element passed is itself a widget? Any suggestions? Trying to use just dojo widgets and not apply anything but positioning to them to take advantage of all the support built into them.
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no. You cannot have a widget
no. You cannot have a widget as the top level node in a template. wrapping a single div around the tabcontainer will give you the results you want, I think.
Thanks Dante, don't know if
Thanks Dante, don't know if anything bad happens but it appears that if you use dojo.parser.parse(this.domNode); in postCreate you can have a top level widget in your template.