Re: [PATCH yew-widget-toolkit v2] widget: add 'div' macro

[Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>]

On 02/04/2026 15:43, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> this is just a simple wrapper around the `Container` widget, but it's
> very useful in situations where bare strings are used in a flex layout,
> since e.g. a `Row` with multiple children that are all strings won't get
> a proper flex layout (since they're not elements)
> 
> So instead of writing
> ```
> Row::new()
>     .with_child(Container::new().with_child("Text1"))
>     .with_child(Container::new().with_child("Text2"))
> ```
> 
> one can now write
> ```
> Row::new()
>     .with_child(div!("Text1"))
>     .with_child(div!("Text2"))
> ```
> 
> which is much shorter and more readable.

Yes, but why a macro and not a normal method for this? Macro's are a bit
opaque, totally fine if there is a benefit for adding them, but here I
cannot see a big blocker against adding an e.g. TextContainer wrapper or
an Container::new_with_text (might need better naming, but just to relay
the idea), especially if that's your main use case. Or for a more generic
use case we could add a "Container::new_with_child" constructor or also
a wrapper type (SimpleContainer::new(child)).

And it isn't exactly a plain div, as then one could just use the html!
macro from yew, so the name as is, is IMO not totally ideal. If we go
the macro way (what's Dietmars opinion on this?), I'd favor to call it
container! to better reflect that it uses the pwt container class.