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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Aladin Alaily <st...@aladin.ca> on 2005/05/24 17:12:37 UTC
Struts, xhtml & bad tag syntax ... maybe nice in 1.7
Hello,
Has anyone tried to make the struts tags xhtml compliant? Here is what I
mean.
I have noticed that whenever an html component is generated using the html
tags (or any other tag from the libraries), they are usually not closed.
For example, when generating a form input field using:
<html:text property="whatever">
the html code generated looks like:
<input type="text" name="whatever" value="">
when it should really look like this:
<input type="text" name="whatever" value="" /> (Notice the / to close the
tag)
This is a problem when you want to enforce a specific DOCTYPE to your
web-application. The problem can easily be fixed... are struts developers
thinking about this problem? It would be nice to have this addition to
Struts 1.7
Aladin
> The way I have done this is I have the following on all my pages:
>
> <body onLoad="hidePleaseWait();">
> <%@ include file="/inc/pleaseWait.inc" %>
> <span id="lyrMain" style="display:none;">
>
> pleaseWait.inc is the HTML for my Please Wait display. For me, it's a
> little clock with spinning hands and a message artistically offset saying
> "Please wait, the system is busy processing your request..." centered on
> the page. The important point is that the first and last lines of that
> include file are:
>
> <span id="lyrPleaseWait" style="display:block;">
> ...
> </span>
>
> Just before I submit any form, I call showPleaseWait(), which is a
> Javascript function in pleaseWait.inc, and it is basically just:
>
> lyrMain.style.display = "none";
> lyrPleaseWait.style.display = "block";
>
> One last piece of the puzzle... that hidePleaseWait() function called
> onLoad is:
>
> lyrMain.style.display = "block";
> lyrPleaseWait.style.display = "hide";
>
> So, every page that loads starts out showing that Please Wait layer, and
> when it's done loading it hides that and shows the main content. When a
> form is submitted, the main content is hidden and the Please Wait layer is
> shown. It works quite well.
>
> I actually do something a bit more complex in one of my apps because it is
> frames-based and I actually target all submissions to a hidden frame, but
> the overall concept is the same. So, if you don't have a problem with the
> requirement of scripting, this works well.
>
> --
> Frank W. Zammetti
> Founder and Chief Software Architect
> Omnytex Technologies
> http://www.omnytex.com
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 9:26 am, Marc Demlenne said:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Using Struts, I'm looking for a good practice to have a "Please wait
>> box" displayed to the user when the action he has requested takes a
>> long time.
>>
>> My requirements are not to display another page to keep the browsing
>> "smooth". I use a JSP tree which can be expanded/collapsed, but the
>> page must stay the same between the calls. So I'd like a small box
>> added in front of the actual window.
>>
>> What I could do is to use a javascript to show or hide a small box in
>> a corner of the window for instance. The problem is that i want this
>> box to be displayed immediately when the ActionClass is called, and
>> hided only when the result page is fully displayed. This is very easy
>> when it is the displaying of the page which is slow (when the logic is
>> inside JSP), but doesn't seem so easy with struts, where it's the
>> action that can take time.
>>
>> Can anyone help me with this ?
>>
>> --
>> Marc Demlenne
>> GPG : 768FA483 (http://pgp.mit.edu)
>>
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Re: Struts, xhtml & bad tag syntax ... maybe nice in 1.7
Posted by Aladin Alaily <st...@aladin.ca>.
Thanks Niall.
I got your message after I had already sent another to the list.
Aladin
> See the <html:xhtml/> and <html:html xhtml="true"/> tags to do this
>
> http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/struts-html.html#xhtml
> http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/struts-html.html#html
>
> Niall
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aladin Alaily" <st...@aladin.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4:12 PM
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Has anyone tried to make the struts tags xhtml compliant? Here is what
>> I
>> mean.
>>
>> I have noticed that whenever an html component is generated using the
>> html
>> tags (or any other tag from the libraries), they are usually not closed.
>>
>> For example, when generating a form input field using:
>> <html:text property="whatever">
>>
>> the html code generated looks like:
>> <input type="text" name="whatever" value="">
>>
>> when it should really look like this:
>> <input type="text" name="whatever" value="" /> (Notice the / to close
>> the
>> tag)
>>
>> This is a problem when you want to enforce a specific DOCTYPE to your
>> web-application. The problem can easily be fixed... are struts
>> developers
>> thinking about this problem? It would be nice to have this addition to
>> Struts 1.7
>>
>> Aladin
>
>
>
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Re: Struts, xhtml & bad tag syntax ... maybe nice in 1.7
Posted by Niall Pemberton <ni...@blueyonder.co.uk>.
See the <html:xhtml/> and <html:html xhtml="true"/> tags to do this
http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/struts-html.html#xhtml
http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/struts-html.html#html
Niall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aladin Alaily" <st...@aladin.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4:12 PM
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone tried to make the struts tags xhtml compliant? Here is what I
> mean.
>
> I have noticed that whenever an html component is generated using the html
> tags (or any other tag from the libraries), they are usually not closed.
>
> For example, when generating a form input field using:
> <html:text property="whatever">
>
> the html code generated looks like:
> <input type="text" name="whatever" value="">
>
> when it should really look like this:
> <input type="text" name="whatever" value="" /> (Notice the / to close the
> tag)
>
> This is a problem when you want to enforce a specific DOCTYPE to your
> web-application. The problem can easily be fixed... are struts developers
> thinking about this problem? It would be nice to have this addition to
> Struts 1.7
>
> Aladin
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