StackContainer/TabContainer: pane can't contain independently sized layout widgets

[bill]

A StackContainer/TabContainer can have arbitrary layout widgets as children, such as TabContainer, and it will render correctly. However, if the StackContainer's child is a ContentPane, and that ContentPane contains various layout widget where the size is set on the layout widgets (rather than inherited from the ContentPane), they will not render correctly. Example (untested) code:

<div dojoType="dijit.Layout.StackContainer" style="height: 500px;">
   <div dojoType="dijit.layout.ContentPane" > ... </div>
   <div dojoType="dijit.layout.ContentPane" > 
             ... random text ...
             <div dojoType="dijit.layout.TabContainer" style="height: 200px;"> ... </div>
             ... random text ...
    </div>
</div>

The problem is that the inner TabContainer needs to visible in order to render. Should probably be using position: absolute, visibility: hidden rather than display: none; to hide the panes.

See also #5546.

[alex]

Milestone 2.0 deleted

[bill]

See #6678 for more discussion and possible patch.

[bill]

See also #6686 for possible patch.