Add widget to pure html that is not part of DOM-structure yet

Question

Okay, this really gets annoying since I am sure that GWT should support what I want to do. I asked already two times and I searched the web but I just can't find a solution to my problem. What I want to do is to load a textfile from the server that e.g. looks like this: ```

Linear Regression

Welcome to this chapter. Here, have a graph:

Alright, now have some math stuff: ``` and place a `Widget` - in my case a line chart - into the div `

`. I tried a few things.. Inside the `onSuccess()` method of an RPC I want to do something like that: ``` public void onSuccess(String result) { HTMLPanel tmp = new HTMLPanel(result); Element el = tmp.getElementById("whatever"); el.appendChild(new LineChart().asWidget().getElement()); contentRoot.add(tmp); } ``` If I do it like that, my result looks like this: ```

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Accepted Answer

Wrap the `div` in an `HTLMPanel`

```
LineChart lineChart = new LineChart();
HTMLPanel panel = new HTMLPanel(result);
panel.add(lineChart, "whatever");
```

Add widget to pure html that is not part of DOM-structure yet

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