Hi Ravi,
Here is an example which uses YUI along with JSON to create a menu in
Struts2. You might find it useful.
http://www.struts2.org/creating-a-cascading-application-menu-using-struts2-and-yui
Regards,
Jayson
On Jan 20, 2008 4:26 PM, ravi_eze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hi Jeromy Evans,
> Thanks for the quick reply. The YUI is working with the html tags also. I
> dont know if this is documented anywhere; any how thanks for the help
>
>
> :-)
>
> Jeromy Evans - Blue Sky Minds wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ravi,
> >
> > YUI doesn't require any specific tags. AFAIK, they're all plain old
> > valid html. It can't get much better than that.
> >
> > ie. this is a TabView:
> >
> > <div id="demo" class="yui-navset">
> > <ul class="yui-nav">
> > <li class="selected"> #tab1 <em>Tab One Label</em> </li>
> > <li> #tab2 <em>Tab Two Label</em> </li>
> > <li> #tab3 <em>Tab Three Label</em> </li>
> > </ul>
> > <div class="yui-content">
> > <div><p>Tab One Content</p></div>
> > <div><p>Tab Two Content</p></div>
> > <div><p>Tab Three Content</p></div>
> > </div>
> > </div>
> >
> >
> > It's instantiated with:
> >
> > var myTabs = new YAHOO.widget.TabView("demo");
> >
> > Which adds additional valid html markup to the DOM.
> >
> > You can create a TagLib or Struts2 tags for commonly used widgets if you
> > like, as provided by the YUI plugin, but this doesn't add much value.
> > For instance, I've created a TabView tags like this:
> >
> > <yui:tabview id="demo" selected="tab1">
> > <yui:tab id="tab1" label="Tab One Label">Tab One Content</yui:tab>
> > <yui:tab id="tab2" label="Tab Two Label">Tab Two Content</yui:tab>
> > <yui:tab id="tab3" label="Tab ThreeLabel">Tab Three Content</yui:tab>
> > </yui:tabview>
> >
> > That renders the original HTML above. The value this adds over the
> > original HTML is dubious considering the effort it took to write the
> > custom-tag and the clarity of the original code. Writing custom tags
> > for the DataTable, TreeView, Charts etc are definitely not worth the
> > effort because the tags can't replicate the functionality of the API.
> >
> > What exactly were you hoping for?
> >
> > regards,
> > Jeromy Evans
> >
> > ravi_eze wrote:
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> i want to use YUI library (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/) with
> struts2.
> >> The problem is that YUI requires YUI specific tags while struts
> generates
> >> html tags. so, can we write themes(ftls etc similar to xhtml etc) which
> >> would generate YUI tags instead of HTML? would this bring in new
> >> problems?
> >> or did any one have tried this? YUI plugin is provided but its alpha
> >> version
> >> and doesnt provide all components that we require.
> >>
> >> any help?
> >>
> >
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