R: Extending html tag: how to do it?
I cannot use the bean:write or the c:out because it espcapes html chars
and then I'll see bciao/a instead of a bold ciao inside the editor
Simone
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Da: Niall Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Inviato: venerdì 7 maggio 2004 23.42
A: Struts Users Mailing List
Oggetto: Re: Extending html tag: how to do it?
You could do this differently using struts tags:
FCK:editor id=HTMLCode
bean:write name=infoPageForm
property=HTMLCode/
/FCK:editor
or even better using the java standard tag library (JSTL):
FCK:editor id=HTMLCode
c:out value=${infoPageForm.HTMLCode}/
/FCK:editor
The only thing then is setting the hidden fields name
attribute to the form name/property so that its submitted
back properly.
Niall
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From: Simone-dev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Extending html tag: how to do it?
Yes, it's a textarea with richer editing features... but
the real form
tag used is then the hidden field.
I already did the not formbean integrated tag designing it
on my own,
without referring to the struts taglib.
I'll try subclassing the BaseInputTag and see what's goin
to happen.
:-)
JavaServer Faces will be a future implementation, but I never used
this technology before, so I'd better start using it before
thinking
about extending with functionality :-)
Best Regards
Simone
Craig McClanahan wrote:
Simone - Dev wrote:
Hello all,
I'm in a team of open source developer for an HTML
editing control
to
be
included in web pages to enable the posting of rich
formatted text
using
a visual approach (instead of typing HTML in a textarea) The
project is http://www.fredck.com/fckeditor/ and u can
see a working
demo (works for the moment just on IE 5+ and windows) here
http://www.fredck.com/fckeditor/Demo/
What I'm writing here becase I've just developed (and will be
released in the next version of the editor, hopefully
next weekend)
a taglib to include this control in a JSP page with a simple
FCK:editor id=bodyNews Text of the news
/FCK:editor instead
of writing all
the
complex javascript code required to the make the html
editor start.
But in the next version I want to go further, and have
the editor
get it's initial value from the FormBean connected with the form
and then set it so that the following action can
retrieve it inside
the FormBean passed by the page.
Basically the editor store the text to edit (and then to
be sent in
the post method) in an hidden field, and one of the
things that my
taglib does is also to write this hidden field with the
starting
value.
But I never extended an HTML taglib, and never found on
the archive
nor other websites some info on how to do it. Thank you for ur
help.
Simone,
From a Struts perspective, what you're describing sounds pretty
similar to the html:textarea tag ... it's just that the editing
would be rich text instead of simple characters, right?
If so, and
if you wanted to be able to interoperate with Struts
capabilities,
you should download the source code for Struts [1], and
take a look
at how the corresponding tag itself is implemented
(org.apache.struts.taglib.html.TextareaTag). The
simplest thing to
do would be cut-n-paste this into a separate tag file, instead of
worrying about extending it. Most of the things you
would need to
change are in the renderTextareaElement() method.
With regards to form bean interaction, I am assuming that
the form
bean would treat the content of the editing area as a
String, right?
If so, then BaseInputTag (which TextareaTag subclasses)
does most of
the work for you. Just make sure your tag includes the
same kinds
of attributes as html:textarea (but especially name,
property,
and value), plus any additional ones you need, and your
renderTextareaElement() will be able to interact with the value
instance variable.
Craig McClanahan
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi
PS: In addition to interoperating with Struts, you might want to
investigate creating a JavaServer Faces component around
your text
editor. This sounds like a very useful gadget. More info:
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/javaserverfaces/
Simone
-
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R: Extending html tag: how to do it?
OK, thank you...
True is the defualt value for filter, so I've to set it to false if I
want the raw data.
Simone
-
Simone Chiaretta
www.piyosailing.com/S
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Life is short, play hard
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Da: Martin Alley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Inviato: sabato 8 maggio 2004 18.06
A: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Oggetto: RE: Extending html tag: how to do it?
Bean:write has a filter parameter:
If this attribute is set to true, the rendered property
value will be filtered for characters that are sensitive in
HTML, and any such characters will be replaced by their
entity equivalents.
-Original Message-
From: Simone - Dev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 May 2004 09:19
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: R: Extending html tag: how to do it?
I cannot use the bean:write or the c:out because it espcapes
html chars and then I'll see bciao/a instead of a bold
ciao inside the editor
Simone
-
Simone Chiaretta
www.piyosailing.com/S
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from magic Life is short, play hard
-Messaggio originale-
Da: Niall Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Inviato: venerdì 7 maggio 2004 23.42
A: Struts Users Mailing List
Oggetto: Re: Extending html tag: how to do it?
You could do this differently using struts tags:
FCK:editor id=HTMLCode
bean:write name=infoPageForm
property=HTMLCode/
/FCK:editor
or even better using the java standard tag library (JSTL):
FCK:editor id=HTMLCode
c:out value=${infoPageForm.HTMLCode}/
/FCK:editor
The only thing then is setting the hidden fields name
attribute to the form name/property so that its submitted
back properly.
Niall
- Original Message -
From: Simone-dev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Extending html tag: how to do it?
Yes, it's a textarea with richer editing features... but
the real form
tag used is then the hidden field.
I already did the not formbean integrated tag designing it
on my own,
without referring to the struts taglib.
I'll try subclassing the BaseInputTag and see what's goin
to happen.
:-)
JavaServer Faces will be a future implementation, but I never used
this technology before, so I'd better start using it before
thinking
about extending with functionality :-)
Best Regards
Simone
Craig McClanahan wrote:
Simone - Dev wrote:
Hello all,
I'm in a team of open source developer for an HTML
editing control
to
be
included in web pages to enable the posting of rich
formatted text
using
a visual approach (instead of typing HTML in a textarea) The
project is http://www.fredck.com/fckeditor/ and u can
see a working
demo (works for the moment just on IE 5+ and windows) here
http://www.fredck.com/fckeditor/Demo/
What I'm writing here becase I've just developed (and will be
released in the next version of the editor, hopefully
next weekend)
a taglib to include this control in a JSP page with a simple
FCK:editor id=bodyNews Text of the news
/FCK:editor instead
of writing all
the
complex javascript code required to the make the html
editor start.
But in the next version I want to go further, and have
the editor
get it's initial value from the FormBean connected
with the form
and then set it so that the following action can
retrieve it inside
the FormBean passed by the page.
Basically the editor store the text to edit (and then to
be sent in
the post method) in an hidden field, and one of the
things that my
taglib does is also to write this hidden field with the
starting
value.
But I never extended an HTML taglib, and never found on
the archive
nor other websites some info on how to do it. Thank you for ur
help.
Simone,
From a Struts perspective, what you're describing sounds pretty
similar to the html:textarea tag ... it's just that
the editing
would be rich text instead of simple characters, right?
If so, and
if you wanted to be able to interoperate with Struts
capabilities,
you should download the source code for Struts [1], and
take a look
at how the corresponding tag itself is implemented
(org.apache.struts.taglib.html.TextareaTag). The
simplest thing to
do would be cut-n-paste this into a separate tag file,
instead of
worrying about extending it. Most of the things you
would need to
change are in the renderTextareaElement() method.
With regards to form bean interaction, I am assuming
