Aha! i use the bean:write's but then i like doing things the complicated way. Never used the html:options in this situation before so thanks for the tip - will make things much easier!
cw :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Lowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 12:34 PM Subject: Re: AW: html:options and html:select Thank goodness for that, dunno why folks seem to do that bean:write for dropdowns :o) On 2 Feb 2004, at 13:27, Otto, Frank wrote: > Thanks for your answer, but > > I have found out, that I can use html:optionsCollection. > > <html:select property="ref"> > <html:optionsCollections name="myForm" property="myListOfBean" > value="id" label="name"/> > </html:select> > > Regards, > > Frank > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Claire Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Montag, 2. Februar 2004 13:22 > An: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: Re: html:options and html:select > > > you can do the following: > > <html:select name="FormName" property="xxx"> > <logic:iterate id="product" name="FormName" property="ListName"> > <option value="<bean:write name="product" > property="id"/>"><bean:write name="product" property="name"/> > </logic:iterate> > </html:select> > > > 'property' of the select box should be the name of the property in your > FormBean that you wish to store the selected value in. > You then iterate through the list in your form by using the > <logic:iterate> > tag. For every object in your list an <option> tag is written, where > the > value is the property 'id' of the current CProduct and the name > displayed in > the select box is the name of this CProduc object. This may not work > as it > stands due to using an Integer object - i'm not certain that you can > set the > value of a select box option to an Integer object. You'd have to try > it and > see, and perhaps somebody can clarify this further, but I've never > tried > this myself. > > HTH > claire :) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Otto, Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts-User (E-Mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 12:11 PM > Subject: html:options and html:select > > >> hello, >> >> I have following bean: >> >> public class CProduct { >> >> private Integer id; >> >> private String name >> >> public Integer getId() {return id;} >> puclic void setId(Integer id){ >> ... >> } >> >> My form class contains a java.util.List of CProduct bean. >> >> How can I display the List as select box? I want to use the id as >> value > and the name as label of the select box. >> >> For example: >> >> <select name="ref"> >> <option value="1">scanner</option> >> <option value="2">harddisk</option> >> </select> >> >> Has anyone an idea? >> >> Regards, >> >> Frank >> >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
