Best Practice for Reuse of JSPs for Display and Input?

[ti...@ubs.com]

I am designing a Struts application that has both display-only and input 
modes for all the data. Ideally, I would like to reuse the same JSPs for both 
the display-only and input modes without compromising the user-friendliness of 
the page produced. The JSP pages are using the Struts HTML tags for data input. 
This sounds like a common issue that lots of applications must face and I would 
be very interested in what solutions other people are using

Possible design approaches I have currently in mind: -

1. Reusable JSPs could be built around the Struts HTML tags setting the 
"disabled" attribute for the display-only mode. This should work but the user 
gets greyed out text (on Internet Explorer) which is hard to read and the 
display-only mode still has input boxes which can confuse the end user
2. The "readonly" attribute is another possibility but seems to be ignored by
some browsers (Netscape Communicator 4.76)
3. Maybe JSP custom tags could be used but I am concerned that a full solution
for this would be to extend the HTML Text tag and the nested HTML Text tag

Thoughts on the above approaches and/or alternatives would be appreciated

Tim.

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