Format date in textfield

[Roland Carlsson <ro...@alfa-moving.se>]

Hi!

I've got an ActionForm that holds a date. The validator checks the format of
the date perfectly and everything is great, almost. When I pre-populate the
ActionForm with a date it will only get it a default-format that is very
wrong for my needs.

How can I format the date that is going to be used in the html-form? Is the
only way to write the input-tag by hand and then use <bean:write
format="yyyy-MM-dd" />?

Thanks for your advice
Roland Carlsson


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Re: Format date in textfield

[Hubert Rabago <hr...@gmail.com>]

When an ActionForm field is used to transmit form data, the
recommendation is to use a String field and let the Action
format/parse its contents.  That's what you should do with your date
field.  Declare the field in the ActionForm to use java.lang.String,
then populate it with a formatted date in your action before the form
is shown to the user.

Hubert

On Apr 12, 2005 6:06 AM, Roland Carlsson <ro...@alfa-moving.se> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've got an ActionForm that holds a date. The validator checks the format of
> the date perfectly and everything is great, almost. When I pre-populate the
> ActionForm with a date it will only get it a default-format that is very
> wrong for my needs.
> 
> How can I format the date that is going to be used in the html-form? Is the
> only way to write the input-tag by hand and then use <bean:write
> format="yyyy-MM-dd" />?
> 
> Thanks for your advice
> Roland Carlsson
> 
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