This *would* be possible using cookies and javascript if you could set the value of an <input type="file"> element, but this is against the rules of the html-spec, so no go.
I'm sure there is a way to workaround it, like setting the filepath as a cookie and then rendering an <input type="text"> - but then the user will not be able to re-select a file. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hans-Joachim Matheus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Christoph > > Von: Rooms, Christoph [mailto:CRooms@S...] > > I have a html:file tag in my form. > > > > The user selects a file, press submit ... And because of > > validation errors > > he will see the form to re-edit it. BUT the file field is empty. > > > > There is no workaround. The local file path ("c:\temp\foo") > which you see in the file dialog in the browser is not submitted > to the server but only the filename ("foo"). > > You cannot return this value ("foo") from the server to the client, > because something like <input type="file" value="foo"> would point to the > wrong > local file location. > > It is completely normal behavior that you see an empty file-input- field > when struts comes back with some validation errors. > This is sometimes annoying for the user. But that is as it is. > > Hans-Joachim Matheus > > -- > mailto:Hans-Joachim.Matheus@i... \ > in-integrierte informationssysteme GmbH \ > Am Seerhein 8 Tel +49 (0)7531/8145-0 \ > D-78467 Konstanz Fax -81 \ > -------------------->http://www.in-gmbh.de \ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@j...> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@j...> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
