Has anyone ever discussed adding a general-purpose "attributes" attribute to the <html> tag library to support non-standard HTML like this? For example,
<html:text property='something' attributes='readonly onclick="alert(\"hello\")\"'/> Obviously it is better to not include onclick on the attributes attribute, but I just included it as an example. Just a thought... Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Leland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:23 PM Subject: Re: Editable Fields V/S Static Text > 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 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
