Here's something from the archives you might find useful. --------------------------------- Since this is essentially error text you are talking about, I think the easiest way to handle this is through Struts's error tags:
<html:text property="username" ... /> <html:errors property="username"/> Where there is an error on "username," you add a new ActionError with a message key like "error.field.icon" or something, and the value of that key is just HTML that generates the icon. So you would have this in your ApplicationResources.properties file: error.field.icon=<img src="error_icon.gif" /> The drawback then is that you really can't add any other errors on "username" or else the display would mess up. We used this approach on a project and it worked well. Sean --------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Hanisch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:05 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Highlighting fields that failed in validation > > > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 13:37, O'Hara, Jean wrote: > > Hi there > > > > A requirement for the application I'm working on is to > highlight fields that > > cause validation errors in red and also display an asterisk after the > > offending field. This is as well as giving a list of the > errors in a box to > > the side. Listing the errors in the box is fine but does > anyone know of a > > good way of highlighting each field. I'm using the Struts Validator > > framework and using the DynaValidatorForm. I think I might > need to write > > some custom tags but am not very familiar with custom JSP tags. > Any advice > > would be welcome! > Umm... not sure what you mean by "highlight". > What I usually do is to render every form widget in a table cell of its > own; if there is an error for a widget, "highlight" this table cell in > yellow (or whatever). > > You don't necessarily need a custom tag for that, though it would make > things easier. Otherwise, just use one of the logic tags to check if an > error for the widget is present (logic:present or something like that). > > HTH, > Michael. > > > -- > Michael Hanisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Red Hat - RH Interchange Inc., Orleansstrasse 4, D-81669 Munich/Germany > phone: +49 (0)89 206058-53 fax: +49 (0)89 206058-88 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
