Take a look at the html:hidden tag, there's an attribute to specify having the text written.
Example: <html:hidden property="someField" write="true"/> James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist Struts-Atlanta, the "Open Minded Developer Network" http://www.open-tools.org/struts-atlanta > -----Original Message----- > From: David Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 1:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to write an ActionForm property as just plain text > > > Suppose you wanted to have an entry screen, then a confirmation screen. > The entry screen could have one field (email address) for example. In > my jsp, I'll use <html:text property="email> to accomplish this. > > The user enters an email address and submits the form. I want the > Action to then forward the request to a confirmation page. On that > page, I want to just write out the email address they entered. I could > use <html:text property="email" disabled="true"> to put a disabled text > box, and struts would fill in the value of the email address. But, what > if you want to just put out the email address in plain text? > > Is there an easy way to do this? I managed to accomplish this by > creating my own tag <custom:text property="email">. I created a custom > TextTag class that extends BaseInputTag, looks up the property and > writes it out. This works, but it seems like there should be a better > way of doing this. Is there a better way? How have others approached > this problem? > > TIA > > -- Dave > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>