The first technique couples your presentation with your business logic more closely than does the latter. So, my preference would be using the <html:options>.
You can maintain the collection that makes up the options in the form bean for the page. Initialization must be handled via the associated action class. Sri -----Original Message----- From: Doug Dates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 8:35 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: html:options I want to display a dropdown list. The list items are "By First Name", "By Last Name", "By Date". I think I can do it by the following way: <html:select size=1 property="choice"> <html:option value="fName"> By First Name </html:option> <html:option value="fName"> By Last Name </html:option> <html:option value="fName"> By Date </html:option> </html:select> Is there any disadvantages to use above approach compared with using <html:options...>? If I use <html:options ... > instead of using above individual <html:option...>,as following: <html:select property="choice" size="1"> <html:options collection="<%= myArrayList %>" property="value" labelProperty="label"/> </html:select> where should I set myArrayList? in init method of my servlet class, or in my action form bean, or somewhere else? I am not quite understand it. Could some one please help me? Thank you Doug ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- 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]>
