Ok, I see what you're saying. I'm actually working on my first web app, and the my main objects are stored in the session so I don't have to worry about retaining the value. I can definitely see how you would need the <html:hidden> tag for some scenarios though.
~ Keith http://www.buffalo.edu/~kkamholz -----Original Message----- From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 1:37 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: How to write an ActionForm property as just plain text To each his own I guess. If you want to retain a value, such as an id for a row, but only allow read-only access to it. Don't use html:text with disabled, it doesn't work in NS 4.7 and a few others. You can use html:hidden and it will: a) create a <hidden name="blah blah".... b) write out the value in plain text (you just can't get more 'read-only' than that) c) when the form is submitted, because you had a hidden form field, struts will re-populate that field correctly for you. Like I said before, if you don't care to retain the value.....use bean:write James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist Struts-Atlanta, the "Open Minded Developer Network" http://www.open-tools.org/struts-atlanta > -----Original Message----- > From: Kamholz, Keith (corp-staff) USX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 1:27 PM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: How to write an ActionForm property as just plain text > > > You're just trying to write out the property as text? Why mess > around with > <html:hidden>? Like I said, <bean:write> works perfectly fine. > http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/struts-bean.html > > > ~ Keith > http://www.buffalo.edu/~kkamholz > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 1:24 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: How to write an ActionForm property as just plain text > > > html:hidden seems to only support name, property, and value attributes > > Are you sure that hidden has a setting to write out as text? > > -- dave > > James Mitchell wrote: > > >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]> > > > > > > > > > -- > 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]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
