It made me think about an idea for KVision. What do you think about allowing custom html tag for cus...

# kvision

[Tomas Kormanak]

It made me think about an idea for KVision. What do you think about allowing custom html tag for custom components? It's a kind of angular approach but it would make html more readable and navigable.
Somethign like:

<tabpanel><tab><mycomponent><mycomponent></tab></tabpanel>

[Tomas Kormanak]

We often write custom components and it would help new developer to easily find the component in the source code.

[Robert Jaros]

But there is CustomTag component in KVision. Do you have something different on your mind?

[Tomas Kormanak]

I would prefer to have the option to set custom tag on all components, we usually extend SimplePanel It could default to div when it is not set.

class MyComponent : SimplePanel() {
    override val customTag = "custom-tag"
}

would produce:

<custom-tag></custom-tag>

or optionally it can be derived from component classname:

class UserProfile : SimplePanel() {}

would render:

<user-profile></user-profile>

[Tomas Kormanak]

It would also help with styling (no need to add extra class), we often add class which is specific for component:

class UserProfile : SimplePanel(classes=setOf("useprofile")) {}