How hard would it be to add a method like useHtmlElementId()? It would default to false, but when a component returns "true" then the element id from the template would be used.
Scott On 7/26/07, Igor Vaynberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the general problem here is that hardcoding ids into wicket markup is mostly > dangerous because things are so reusable. > > if you put an id into a repeater then it will be repeated all the time - > causing multiple elements with the same id - which will lead to invalid > html. > > hardcoding an id inside a panel or a fragment will lead to the same problem. > it isnt something obvious until you start reusing code and then it gets > nasty all of a sudden. so my two cents are to discourage this. > > however, as a workaround for cases where you _must_ do this we have > component.setmarkupid(string) in trunk - you can use that to force any id > you want. > > -igor > > > On 7/26/07, Kirk Israel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 7/26/07, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-694 > > > > i guess there were problems when implementing this, maybe eelco can > > > > ellaborate more on the "unforeseen side effects" > > > > > > Yeah, they were listed in the thread that is mentioned in the issue: > > > > > http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-getMarkupId-doesn%27t-return-the-id-from-the-markup-p11294903.html > > > > > > I don't really know what to do with it tbh. I hope someone else has > > > some suggestions. > > > > I'm a little surprised this isn't more of a high priority item... I > > know Repeaters et al might need some special casing, but could the > > "usual" cases do what the coder probably expects, i.e. if you specify > > in html markup, that id is preserved (and therefore usable in > > javascript's getElementById ??) > > > > Or... I'm not sure what else might depend on that Id as it gets spit > > out into what's finally sent to the browser, but maybe there could be > > a some kind of mapping function in javascript, > > .getElementByWicketId(id)? and > > getRepeaterElementByIdAndIterationNumber(id,num) > > (I tend to make my function names a bit long :-) > > > > As a thinking point, my group has come up with 3 possible workarounds > > until the real solution appears: > > * temporary, awful hack bandaid currently in use: our javascript > > getElementById added a "6" to the id... the fragile nature of this > > "fix" is not lost on us > > * go through some function along the lines of getElementByPrefixOfId() > > , so we can get what was specified > > * every form has a hidden field like <input type="hidden" > > name="OUR_ID" value="XYZ">, and then we have a specific > > getFormByOurId() > > > > Again, I'm not sure what getMarkupId(Component) is called by, if it's > > mostly wicket internal use or what... most of what I've talked about > > here is javascript workarounds, though i guess the underlying Java > > equivalents should be obvious. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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