com.vaadin.annotations

Annotation Type StyleSheet

@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
 @Target(value=TYPE)
public @interface StyleSheet

If this annotation is present on a ClientConnector class, the framework ensures the referenced style sheets are loaded before the init method for the corresponding client-side connector is invoked.

Absolute URLs including protocol and host are used as is on the client-side. Relative URLs are mapped to APP/PUBLISHED/[url] which are by default served from the classpath relative to the class where the annotation is defined.

The file is only loaded if it has not already been loaded, determined as follows:

• For absolute URLs, the URL is considered loaded if the same URL has previously been loaded using StyleSheet or if a <link rel="stylesheet"> tag using the same URL was present in the DOM when the Vaadin client-side was initialized.
• For relative URLs, the URL is considered loaded if another file with the same name has already been loaded using StyleSheet, even if that file was loaded from a different folder.

Special Vaadin urls are also supported. The most useful is vaadin:// which maps to the location of the automatically published VAADIN folder. Using the VAADIN folder and vaadin:// you can publish stylesheets which use images or other files with relative paths.

Example: @StyleSheet({"http://host.com/file1.css", "file2.css"}) on the class com.example.MyConnector would load the file http://host.com/file1.css as is and file2.css from /com/example/file2.css on the server's classpath using the ClassLoader that was used to load com.example.MyConnector.

Since:

7.0.0

Author:

Vaadin Ltd

Required Element Summary

Required Elements

Modifier and Type	Required Element and Description
String[]	value Style sheets to load before initializing the client-side connector.

Element Detail

value

public abstract String[] value

Style sheets to load before initializing the client-side connector.

Returns:

an array of style sheet urls