well, blow me - managed to sort my own problem for a change. Removed the 'value="Y"' from my checkbox definition, defined the attribute as a boolean within the formBean and the little fella now works like a charm.
Apologies to Ted for saying there were no examples around, I have now checked the Artimus example on his website! regards, steve __________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Steve Earl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 9:24 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' (E-mail) Subject: Retaining checkbox state on redisplay Hi guys, As usual with my questions this has probably been done to death but I still haven't grasped it!! Can someone tell me the 'best practice' method of defining checkbox elements to allow them to be re-populated with the user selected state when a page is redisplayed. I currently have a checkbox contained within my jsp which has the following setup: <snip> <html:checkbox property="direct" value="Y" /> <snip> within my formbean for this page I have direct defined as a string, not a boolean and set it as follows: <snip> public void setDirect(String direct) { this.direct = direct; } <snip> The action class then examines the state of the direct attribute within the formBean and if it's set to "Y" it does some work. My problem is that on the redisplay of the page the checkbox is shown as unchecked i.e. it reverts to its original state. I read some messages on the archive suggesting that the formBean needed to set the value of direct from within a reset() method but didn't quite figure out whether that means that direct should be defined as a boolean or not. Also had a look at most of the examples on the struts homepage and couldn't find any which included checkboxes. All a bit confused really....a normal Friday feeling.. tia steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
