RE: how to specify HTML attribute when HTML Tag does not have cor rosp onding attribute

["Nimmons, Buster" <bu...@sbec.com>]

Upon further contemplation a extendedHTMLTagBody attribute might be more
appropriate. So that you can instruct the tag bean to write what is supplied
into the html tag. (IE <html:textarea property="description" cols="30"
rows="2" extendedHTMLTagBody="myCustomAttribute='something' wrap='hard'" />.
I don't care how many attributes you implement in a tag somebody somewhere
will need to have something extra written to the HTML stream.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nimmons, Buster [mailto:bustern@sbec.com]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:41 PM
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: how to specify HTML attribute when HTML Tag does not have
cor rosp onding attribute


Not sure about browser specific, but view the properties/attributes section
of the MSDN dhtml developer reference there are well over 200 attributes or
properties available. Granted this is for all object types but there is
still a tremendous gap between what is available and ahat is supported. This
is my first application in which I have utilized STRUTS, I have normally
shied away from tags to generate HTML tags just for this reason. I figured
STRUTS is mature enough that I should run into very few of these situations.
Well, the very first tag on the very first page is a culprit. Now, I'm not
against implementing the WRAP attribute but having an unsupportedAttribute
would sure make life easier at times.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:Wendy.Smoak@asu.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:24 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: how to specify HTML attribute when HTML Tag does not have
cor rosp onding attribute


> Fair enough... I'm thinking If I have to subclass and create 
> this attribute would there be any forseeable harm in making an 
> "unsupportedAttribute" and pass in the key/value pair combination 
> to be rendered (IE. <html:textarea unsupportedAttribute="wrap='hard'" 
> property="description" cols="30" rows="2"/>) that way I don't 
> have to go through this every time I need to use a new attribute.

What happens if you need to use two unsupported attributes in a single
tag?  I'd just extend the tag and do it right... How many browser
specific attributes are there?

-- 
Wendy Smoak
Application Systems Analyst, Sr.
ASU IA Information Resources Management 

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