On 11/14/05, Mark S Petrovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Good day. I am new to Struts, and while I am coming up to speed, I'm
> still struggling with what are surely common idioms.
>
> In a JSP, I want to output, say, a <td> element body conditionally based
> on a given bean property.
>
> In pseudocode, I want
>
> if bean.property == true
> print <td> X </td>
> else
> print <td> Y </td>
>
> I examined the Struts Logic tags, but found no if/else construct, and
> I suspect there is a good reason for this.
>
> Does Struts culture encourage me to somehow move the solution into the
> bean itself, or is there a informed, stylish way to deal with this in
> the JSP?


You can easily simulate if/else (or even if - else if - else if) chains with
the JSTL <c:choose> tag, with nested <c:when> or <c:otherwise> tags. It's
similar in spirit to using the "switch" statement in Java or C.

Craig


Thank you.
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