Yes, This has been brought up many times over the last 3 years, and probably has been implemented several times extending the Struts tags.
I am not opposed to such a feature, and would support it, though other committers might not.
The key argument against it is that it would transform the html tags into a non-standard
implementation. The html tags are ment to be a thin module aware layer over the browsers tags,
and nothing more. That is why we don't have a Calender tag or Date chooser tag.
Though I suppose if you really --knocked our socks off !-- with a spiffy implementation it could
become part of Struts.
I believe since we still support Netscape 4.X series browsers, a read-only attribute has
not been added.
Since struts is trying to get out of the JSP tag business since 40-50% of our bugs are there.
which subtracts from our limited time for the core framework. You might consider contributing
the tag to http://struts.sf.net
-Rob
Chris Gastin wrote:
Has anyone considered a feature which toggles between an editable form element and read only text / static text.
I find myself developing JSPs where depending on the Use Case "fieldA" could be an editalbe text box (<input name="fieldA" value="My Text Value" />) in Use Case 1 on xyz.jsp and readonly text /static text in Use Case 2 (My Text Value) on the same jsp. Presently I am using the <logic:equal></logic:equal> tags. Which get really messy. Here is some sample code.
<logic:equals name="actionForm" property="myFieldEditable" value="true"> <html:text name="actionForm" property"myField" /> </logic:equal> <logic:equals name="actionForm" property="myFieldEditable" value="false"> <bean:write name="actionForm" property"myField" /> </logic:equal>
It would be nice to add an attribute to the current tag libraries, which is a boolean, and does this toggling for you. Here is what I am envisioning
If actionForm.myField = "My Text Value"; This tag <html:text name="actionForm" property"myField" readOnlyText="true"/> would output "My Text Value".
Where <html:text name="actionForm" property"myField" readOnlyText="false"/> the following tag would output <input name="fieldA" value="My Text Value" />
As you can imagine this would not be a huge undertaking to add this feature to the current tag libraries in struts. I could use this feature, and I am sure other could too. I am willing to contribute my time to the development effort. I am not stuck on the attribute name "readOnlyText", and would welcome suggestions. Does this sound like a good idea, and if the answer is yes, what is the next step.
Chris Gastin
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