We use a mechanism that basically wraps a set of Struts Form/Form Fields in a tag that applies a set of XSLT templates to the body of the tag. This enables use to add features like you describe w/o touching the Struts tags themselves. We use it for custom error placement, highlighting form fields for required, or error conditions, etc..
-----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Yann C�bron Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: extending Struts taglibs to indicate form field states > Im considering extending the Struts taglibs (specfically the form object > tags). What Im thinking about doing is adding a "formStateObject" to my > ActionForm beans and having it dictate the "state" of specifc elements of a > form. For example, if a particular field should be disabled, then I would > add disable="true" to the parsed form tag. Other properties of my > formStateObject include changing the css class of the object (to indicate > which fields are required) and whether or not to display a form object. My > intention is to clean up the JSP's that currently have logic tags wrapping > code according to the values set in formStateObject. > > Has anyone else extended the taglibs in such a way? > Opinions on this type of approach? Try struts-layout: http://struts.application-servers.com/ There are also some Bugzilla-tickets with attached patches regarding the problem of marking input fields depending on their state. HTH, Yann --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
