I agree, and does require more work, considering:
<html:label for="name">
<bean:message key="prompt.username"/>
</html:label>
Is more typing than:
<label for="name">
...
</label>
Maybe something like this would make it more useful:
<html:label key="prompt.username" />
I was thinking of reducing the prefixes in my struts-xdoclet app from:
html -> h
logic -> l
bean -> b
tiles -> t
nested -> n
Would this create too much confusion (even though it would require less
typing?)?
It much rather type <h:label key="prompt.username" />
Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 12:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Enhancement Request - add label and labelKey to
> form elements
>
>
> I don't see what advantage the <html:label> tag has over hand
> coding the
> html. Looks like the same amount of work to me.
>
> David
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: Enhancement Request - add label and labelKey to form
> >elements
> >Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:14:10 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Matt Raible wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:10:33 -0700
> > > From: Matt Raible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Enhancement Request - add label and labelKey to form
> > > elements
> > >
> > > I thought I'd run this idea by the development team
> before entering
> > > it into Bugzilla.
> > >
> > > One of the items that is required with 508 compliance is
> a <label>
> > > value for each form element:
> > >
> > > For example:
> > >
> > > <label for="name">Name:</label>
> > > <input type="text" id="name" size="50" name="name" />
> > >
> > > More information at: http://www.csuohio.edu/uctl/508/forms.html
> > >
> > > This would typically be rendered with Struts tags using:
> > >
> > > <label for="name">Name:</label>
> > > <html:text name="name" styleId="name" size="50"/>
> > >
> > > To make it easier, we could do:
> > >
> > > <html:text name="name" styleId="name" size="50"
> label="Name:"/> OR
> > > <html:text name="name" styleId="name" size="50"
> > > labelKey="prompt.name"/>
> > >
> > > The problems I see with this are that you lose some
> control over the
> > > presentation (i.e. a <br /> after the label or labels in
> a separate
> > > <td>). However, it might be useful for rapid prototyping and
> > > code-generating tools. My hope someday is that the JSP simply
> > > renders XML, and then an XSL stylesheet is applied, and in this
> > > case, the presentation issues would disappear?
> > >
> > > What does everyone think? Would anyone use it?
> > >
> >
> >I think a way to create <label> elements would be very
> useful. I just
> >don't think we should embed it in the existing UI element
> tags (for the
> >reasons that others have articulated.
> >
> >How about a new <html:label> tag instead. Then, you could do things
> >like this on the logon page in struts-example:
> >
> > ...
> > <tr>
> > <th align="right">
> > <html:label for="name">
> > <bean:message key="prompt.username"/>
> > </html:label>
> > </th>
> > <td align="left">
> > <html:text styleId="name" property="username" size="16"
> > maxlength="18"/>
> > </td>
> > </tr>
> > ...
> >
> >(I thought you tied labels to elements with the "id" ???)
> >
> >The above approach assumes that it's not necessary to localize the
> >element id itself (which would really complicate attempts to
> generate
> >JavaScript event handlers), but you do (of course) need to
> localize the
> >text of the label.
> >
> >This also imposes no restrictions on the mechanisms by which
> you manage
> >layout, and can be easily retrofitted onto existing pages.
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Matt
> > >
> >
> >Craig
> >
> >
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