Contrary to popular belief, tiles attributes are not propagated to jsp's defined as attributes. It means that _header.jsp doesn't have any information about a tile attribute 'title', thus ignoring the <tiles:getAsString/> tag (when you remove the ignore="true", struts is actually throwing an exception, that's why you get a blank page).
In order to do what you want you have to define your tiles as: <!-- main layout --> <definition name="Main.layout" path="/_common/layouts/mainLayout.jsp"> <put name="header" value="layout.header" /> <put name="footer" value="/_common/layouts/tiles/_footer.jsp" /> </definition> <definition name="layout.header" path="/_common/layouts/_header.jsp"> <put name="title" value="Test" /> </definition> <!-- test Page --> <definition name="Test.page" extends="Main.layout"> </definition> Hope this helps. On 9/28/05, Graham Reeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have my pages defined in tiles-defs.xml thus: > > <!-- main layout --> > <definition name="Main.layout" path="/_common/layouts/mainLayout.jsp"> > <put name="header" value="/_common/layouts/tiles/_header.jsp" /> > <put name="footer" value="/_common/layouts/tiles/_footer.jsp" /> > </definition> > > <!-- test Page --> > <definition name="Test.page" extends="Main.layout"> > <put name="title" value="Test" /> > </definition> > > mainLayout.jsp is: > <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %> > <tiles:insert attribute="header" /> > <tiles:insert attribute="footer" /> > > Test.jsp is: > <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %> > <tiles:insert definition="Test.page" /> > > So following the from the click of the link to Test.jsp. The tiles for > Test.page are looked up in the tiles-defs.xml. This shows that > Test.page extends Main.layout, differing in the fact that Test.page has > a title of the value of Test. title referenced in _header.jsp via > <tiles:getAsString name="title" ignore="true" />. > > However when the page is rendered it displays the _header.jsp and > _footer.jsp tiles but does not give the new title, leaving it blank. If > I remove the ignore="true" attribute from the getAsString tag then it > renders nothing. Why doesn't the title get picked up? > > Thanks, Graham Reeds > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Guillermo Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monterrey NL, Mexico http://www.javageek.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
