I've inherited some struts code and I have a question about the html
that it generates. I have a feeling there's a bunch more stuff I need
to read but I'm having trouble finding it.
I've run the generated html through validator.w3.org and it gave me
errors that I don't have end tags on input elements. The code for an
offending input element is:
<html:text property="address" size="40"/>
So, I added
<html:xhtml/>
to my .jsp page and the html validates cleanly. Unfortunately, my page
doesn't work anymore.
I've got:
<form id="tryItForm" method="post" action="/mapview/tryItSubmit.do">
<a href="javascript:document.tryItForm.submit();"><img
class="imgover" alt="" height="21" width="105"
src="images/btn/btn_ok.gif"></a>
</form>
which is generated by:
<html:form action="/tryItSubmit">
<a href="javascript:document.tryItForm.submit();"><img
class="imgover" alt="" height="21" width="105"
src="images/btn/btn_ok.gif"/></a>
</html:form>
Unfortunately I get javascript errors in both IE (document.tryItForm is
null or not an object) and firefox (document.tryItForm has no
properties) unless the form element has a name attribute like this:
<form name="tryItForm" method="post" action="/mapview/tryItSubmit.do">
which is the html that I get without the <html:xhtml/> attribute...
I'm looking for a way to get the validation clean and a working page.
I'm not sure whether this is too much to ask or whether the solution is:
1. patch renderName in FormTag.java to add a name attribute even in the
XHTML case.
2. do something different with the html:text to get valid XHTML
3. somehow change my a href="javascript" so it works, or replace it with
something else that does the same thing.
The DOCTYPE element is:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
The DTD there shows that name is a valid attribute for form elements, so
maybe #1 is OK? If not, can someone point me in the right direction?
I'm using struts 1.2.9.
Thanks much for your help.
-DB
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