Your requirement, as stated, is more complicated than is worth doing.
IMO you'd be better served doing this conversion on the server side.
Dave
--- Varun Ratra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the valuable information. The problem is my company is not using
> ajax at the moment. Is there any other way to call the javascipt funtion in
> struts tag. I have a java script function placed in web project. This
> function returns a value
>
> function shortenTextLength(text, textlength)
> {
> var textValue = text;
> if (textValue.length > textlength){
> var shortenedText = textValue.substring(0,textlength) + "...";
> }else{
> var shortenedText = text;
> }
> return (shortenedText);
> }
>
> I want to call function shortenTextLength(text, textlength) in JSP using
> struts tag.
>
> > From: "Varun Ratra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> I have been researching on the web on how to call javascript from Struts
> >> tag.
> >> I am using struts 2 to develop JSP. Following is the piece of code in
> >> JSP,
> >> which calls javascript
> >> <td class="nowrap">
> >> <script type="text/javascript">
> >> document.write(shortenTextLength('${defaultReturnReason}',
> >> '${displayLength}'))
> >> </script>
> >> </td>
> >> The script returns a shortened value of defaultReturnReason based
> >> displayLength
> >> I want to use struts tag to call javascript shortenTextLength(). In
> other
> >> words, I want to embed javascript inside struts tag.
> >> Please suggest how I can achieve this.
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