RE: [taglibs] Create a custom tag that uses struts HTML tags?

[James Mitchell <jm...@telocity.com>]

Could you explain this a bit further.

I've written a few tags myself, but I'm not exactly sure what you are trying
to do.



James Mitchell
Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist
Struts-Atlanta, the "Open Minded Developer Network"
http://www.open-tools.org/struts-atlanta




> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Averty [mailto:john_averty@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 5:06 PM
> To: struts-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Create a custom tag that uses struts HTML tags?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a new struts user, and I couldn't find any information that helped;
>
> I'd like to create a custom tag which represents a
> super-componant such as a "properties list" tag.
>
> The idea would be to:
> 1) dynamically specify which fields to be renderered
> 2) at the same time ensure that the rendering of such list of
> properties is consistant accross different pages of the
> application, without having to rely on "low level" HTML (such as
> tables, etc) on each page.
>
> So the question is:
>
> How can I reference Struts tags from withing my tag
>  - without having to put a lot of snipet code in the jsp page
> (I'd like just the tag and a definition name)
>  - still having the struts built-in validations mechanism work.
>
> I'm assuming I might be able to get to the struts tags by some
> sort of introspecion mechanism, but I'm not clear on how to have
> the validation perform.
>
> Any help grandly apprecitated.
>
> Chheers,
>
> John.
>


--
To unsubscribe, e-mail:   <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
For additional commands, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>