> From: [email protected] > Subject: Struts 2 and automatic ids > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 02:13:44 +0300 > To: [email protected] > > Hi all, > > I recently began to audit a Struts 2.3.16.1 application that I am > maintaining. While running the pages through the HTML markup validation test > at http://validator.w3.org/, I noticed a problem: Struts 2 seems to > automatically generate id’s to many elements related to forms, and sometimes > this results in a page that has several elements with identical auto > generated id. This then leads to a markup validation error. So far the only > way I have found to get around this is to explicitly generate own unique ids, > but this feels like a stupid solution. Is it not possible to prevent Struts > from auto generating ids to forms and some elements within them? > > I have tried to google for some solution but have found nothing useful. In > case it matters, the application in question uses the basic Struts ”simple > theme” globally, but the same problem occurs also with the "xhtml theme". MG>reference for id is here http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-id MG>the 'functions' the (generated) id plays are illustrated here: The (unique) id attribute has several functions in HTML: As a style sheet selector.As a target anchor for hypertext links.As a means to reference a particular element from a script.As the name of a declared OBJECT element.For general purpose processing by user agents (e.g. for identifying fields when extracting data from HTML pages into a database, translating HTML documents into other formats, etc.). MG>struts generates HTML tags using themes which means you *can* create a custom theme as seen here <constant name="struts.ui.theme" value="mkyong" /> http://www.mkyong.com/struts2/working-with-struts-2-theme-template/ MG>If you *dont* want to create a new custom theme you can refactor existing xhtml.ftl to set id="" MG>can you indicate why you want to disable Struts generation of id for HTML tag? MG>if set id="" then you would disable references to 'id' so the id reference would not resolve? MG>http://struts.1045723.n5.nabble.com/Struts-tags-ID-generation-td3476228.html Best regards, > > Heikki MG>Martin
