It might not be sexy, but a fast solution would be to use something else instead of quotes e.g. ^ or | and then use a small Javascript replace function to write out the text correctly?
Colm -----Original Message----- From: Doug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2004 23:25 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: <html:options> where values have embedded quotes Anyone? Doug wrote: > We have some customer-supplied selection options that have double quotes > in their values, and Struts 1.1 isn't seeming to handle this correctly. > > Best I can tell from the HTML spec, these should be placed on the page > as " , which will submit them as %22 , which *should* be seen on > the server side as double quotes again, right? And Struts should be > able to match that to an existing entry so it can properly set the > "selected" value. > > Instead, it seems the options tag isn't "escaping" the quotes at all > (changing them to ") and that if we manually do it ourselves, the > "selected" item still isn't being set when the page is reloaded. IIRC, > the tag is just leaving the quotes inside the attribute value, which > outputs invalid HTML. > > Am I missing something? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks. > > Doug --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
