I'm not sure if this is a best practice or not, but I like to just
display the text if I want a text input box to be disabled. Something
like this:
<logic:equal property="fooDisabled" value="true">
<bean:write property="foo" /><html:hidden property="foo" />
</logic:equal>
<logic:equal property="fooDisabled" value="false">
<html:text property="foo" />
</logic:equal>
This way the value is still submitted when the form is submitted, but
there is no way that the end user could change it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Best Practice for Reuse of JSPs for Display and Input?
I am designing a Struts application that has both display-only and input
modes for all the data. Ideally, I would like to reuse the same JSPs for
both
the display-only and input modes without compromising the
user-friendliness of
the page produced. The JSP pages are using the Struts HTML tags for data
input.
This sounds like a common issue that lots of applications must face and
I would
be very interested in what solutions other people are using
Possible design approaches I have currently in mind: -
1. Reusable JSPs could be built around the Struts HTML tags setting the
"disabled" attribute for the display-only mode. This should work but the
user
gets greyed out text (on Internet Explorer) which is hard to read and
the
display-only mode still has input boxes which can confuse the end user
2. The "readonly" attribute is another possibility but seems to be
ignored by some browsers (Netscape Communicator 4.76) 3. Maybe JSP
custom tags could be used but I am concerned that a full solution for
this would be to extend the HTML Text tag and the nested HTML Text tag
Thoughts on the above approaches and/or alternatives would be
appreciated
Tim.
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