Re: How can i avoid the use of & in a drop down box ?

[Niall Pemberton]

How about posting your jsp source to show how you are doing your options.

Niall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Antonakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: How can i avoid the use of &amp in a drop down box ?


> thank you, i understand now...
> but unfortunately i cannot use that, cause im using javascript and
> HTML dynamic options (eg select1.options = new Option ('',''); )
> using a pre-loaded list of data. Those data have &amp inside,
> so there is nothing i can do on the matter, instead of creating
> a javascript function to dynamically replace &amp with &.
>
> I wanted to avoid this option, but its the only option i have.
>
> Thanks anyway for the tips.. John
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 5:16 PM
> Subject: RE: How can i avoid the use of &amp in a drop down box ?
>
>
> <html:options collection="blah" filter="false"/>
>
> Daniel.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Antonakos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 03 June 2004 15:10
> > To: Struts Users Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: How can i avoid the use of &amp in a drop down box ?
> >
> >
> > where should i put that ?
> > i never heard of it...
> >
> > please give more info, where does it go ?
> > to struts-config.xml or somewhere else ?
> > In the Struts FormClass or inside the jsp tag ?
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Rouven Gehm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 5:01 PM
> > Subject: Re: How can i avoid the use of &amp in a drop down box ?
> >
> >
> > Have you tried to set filter="false" ???
> >
> >
> > Rouven
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "John Antonakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:40 PM
> > Subject: Re: How can i avoid the use of &amp in a drop down box ?
> >
> >
> > > I am re-writing the question cause the stupid Outlook formatted my
text
> > > and made it without any meaning to it.
> > >
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > We have some drop down boxes in our jsp's which take
> > > data straight from the DB. Some of those data contain
> > > the character &. (eg John & me).
> > > We use a javascript array to store these data for internal
> > > use in the page. The struts format those data.
> > > When we use these data in a drop down (html select) appears
> > > as (John &amp me) which obviously does not look good.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to avoid this from happening ?
> > > Can we say to the struts NOT to format the data coming from
> > > the java objects ?
> > >
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > i mean NOT to turn & to &amp, cause when it does it the drop down
> > > says: "John &amp me", which looks ridiculous, doesnt it ?
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Kathy Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 4:26 PM
> > > Subject: RE: How can i avoid the use of & in a drop down box ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Have you tried to use &amp for &? just a thought.
> > >
> > > Kathy
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Srinivas Rao [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:07 AM
> > > > To: Struts Users Mailing List
> > > > Subject: Re: How can i avoid the use of & in a drop down box ?
> > > >
> > > > Hi John,
> > > > It is possible but i am not sure it is working or not ....
> > > > before inset into the database we will use Single quate( '  '
> > ) to store
> > > > the data, after u can access '&' symble from the database..
> > > >
> > > > bye
> > > > Srinivas
> > > >
> > > > John Antonakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > We have some drop down boxes in our jsp's which take
> > > > data straight from the DB. Some of those data contain
> > > > the character &. (eg John & me).
> > > > We use a javascript array to store these data for internal
> > > > use in the page. The struts format those data.
> > > > When we use these data in a drop down (html select) appears
> > > > as (John & me) which obviously does not look good.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to avoid this from happening ?
> > > > Can we say to the struts NOT to format the data coming from
> > > > the java objects ?
> > > >
> > > > John Antonakos
> > > > Software Engineer
> > > > Information Systems Department
> > > > MedNet International Ltd www.mni.gr
> > > > Tel. (+30) 210 6232085
> > > > Fax (+30) 210 6232026
> > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >
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