Custom tag attribute?

[irinapl]

Hi,

I need to add custom attribute to the "html:text" tag.

Example:

<html:text name="emailForm" property="email" performValidate="true" />

And the result would be

<input type="text" name="email" value="" performValidate="true">

The attribute "performValidate" will then be checked with JavaScript.

Is this possible to do? Maybe I can extend struts taglib?

 

[feherke]

Hi

<input type="text" name="email" value="" performValidate="true">

The attribute "performValidate" will then be checked with JavaScript.

Just because you specify an invalid attribute to a tag, the browser will not add a new property to the class which represents that element in the DOM. So you will not access it through JavaScript.

The output is HTML 4.01 compliant

http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-taglib/dev_html.html

So by default Struts will not generate the desired invalid HTML.

For the server side part of your idea you have to extend the org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BaseInputTag and org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BaseFieldTag classes or more, and update the taglib.tld, struts-form.tld and struts-html.tld.

For the client side part, you have to write a browser.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[irinapl]

Thank you Feherke,

Is there any other way to mark the element, so that I can chack for that mark later? I have a lot of fields in the form and some of them need to be marked.

irinapl

 

[feherke]

Hi

I suggest to use a style class.

This goes completely off-topic as it belongs to forum216, but in JSP looks like this :

<%@[blue][b]taglib[/b][/blue] [green]prefix[/green]=[purple]"html"[/purple] [green]uri[/green]=[purple]"/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld"[/purple]%>
<[blue][b]html:html[/b][/blue]>
<[blue]head[/blue]>
<[blue]style[/blue] [green]type[/green]=[purple]"text/css"[/purple]>
input.mandatory { border-color: red; }
</[blue]style[/blue]>
<[blue]script[/blue] [green]type[/green]=[purple]"text/javascript"[/purple]>
function check()
{
  for (i=0;e=document.getElementsByTagName('input')[i++];) {
    if (e.type!='text' || e.className!='mandatory') continue;
    [gray]// check here[/gray]
  }
}
</[blue]script[/blue]>
</[blue]head[/blue]>
<[blue]body[/blue]>
<[blue][b]html:form[/b][/blue] [green]action[/green]=[purple]"#"[/purple] [green]onsubmit[/green]=[purple]"check"[/purple]>
Age : <[blue][b]html:text[/b][/blue] [green]property[/green]=[purple]"age"[/purple] [green]styleClass[/green]=[purple]"mandatory"[/purple]/><[blue]br[/blue]>
Sex : <[blue][b]html:text[/b][/blue] [green]property[/green]=[purple]"sex"[/purple] [green]styleClass[/green]=[purple]"mandatory"[/purple]/><[blue]br[/blue]>
Location : <[blue][b]html:text[/b][/blue] [green]property[/green]=[purple]"location"[/purple]/><[blue]br[/blue]>
<[blue][b]html:submit[/b][/blue]/>
</[blue][b]html:form[/b][/blue]>
</[blue]body[/blue]>
</[blue][b]html:html[/b][/blue]>

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[irinapl]

Thanks very much, feherke.