If its just for messages, We do the following This defines the header and footer for a message, IE, we set the color and an unordered list
<!-- error HTML header and footer (note: errors. is required by struts) --> errors.header=<p align="center"><b><font color="red">System Message</b><br><ul> errors.footer=</ul></font> Then each message is done as: validation.city=<li><p align="center">City cannot be empty</li> I would think just doing: key.name= <b> my message in bold </b> would work?? but what I have shown you above works for us -----Original Message----- From: Menke, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 7:49 PM To: Struts (E-mail) Subject: is there any way to include HTML in message properties file? I would like to do something like this: key.name= <b> my message in bold </b> is there any way to get the messages tag to output escaped hmtl? -john --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]