Hello All, Found my answer... (posting here for the benefit of others)
To make the tags xhtml compliant, you have to add <html:xhtml/> to your pages. Aladin > Hi Christopher, > >> This is surely down to your IDE and not Struts. > > I don't think you understand the problem, because it is not related to an > IDE. > > When you write: > <html:text property="whatever"/> > > The HTML code generated (when viewing the page in Explorer, Netscape, > Opera, or whatever) is: > <input type="text" name="whatever" value=""> > > Try it and see (do a view source in your browser). > > Aladin > > >> >> Cheers >> >> Christopher Marsh-Bourdon >> www.marsh-bourdon.com >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Aladin Alaily [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 24 May 2005 16:13 >> To: Struts Users Mailing List >> Cc: user@struts.apache.org >> Subject: 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) >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The information contained herein is confidential and is intended solely >> for the >> addressee. 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