I'm working with GWT and I'm trying to add google-maps to my website. Since I want to use google-maps V3 I'm using JSNI. In order to display the map in my website I need to create a div element with id="map" and get it in the initialization function of the map. I did so, and it worked out fine but its location on the webpage is funny and I want it to be attached to a panel I'm creating in my code. So my question is how can I do it? Can I create a div somehow with GWT inside a panel ?

I've tried to do create a new HTMLPanel like this:

runsPanel.add(new HTMLPanel("<div id=\"map\"></div>"));

Where runsPanel is a the panel I want to to be attached to. Yet, it fails to retrive the div when I use the following initialization function:

private native JavaScriptObject initializeMap() /*-{

    var latLng = new $wnd.google.maps.LatLng(31.974, 34.813); //around Rishon-LeTsiyon
    var mapOptions = {
        zoom : 14,
        center : latLng,
        mapTypeId : $wnd.google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
    };
    var mapDiv = $doc.getElementById('map');
    if (mapDiv == null) {
        alert("MapDiv is null!");
    }
    var map = new $wnd.google.maps.Map(mapDiv, mapOptions);
    return map;

}-*/;

(It pops the alert - "MapDiv is null!")

Any ideas? Thanks