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Peter Luttrell commented on DISPL-195: -------------------------------------- Roberta, While this may add additional flexability for the look and feel, I need the ability to actually control the actual html generated so I can change it's functionality completely. This way it can work in the custom MVC environment for which I must operate in.... -peter > Allow for customization of Sorting Anchors > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: DISPL-195 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/DISPL-195 > Project: DisplayTag > Type: Improvement > Components: Paging/Sorting > Reporter: Peter Luttrell > > > DisplayTag provides the ability to override the output of the anchors used > for pagination, but not sorting. I need this to be able to use the DisplayTag. > Here is the code to implement it: > Add the following to TableProperties.java: > /** > * property <code>sort.th.link</code>. > */ > public static final String PROPERTY_STRING_SORT_TH_LINK = "sort.th.link"; > //$NON-NLS-1$ > /** > * Getter for the <code>PROPERTY_STRING_SORT_TH_LINK</code> property. > * @return String > */ > public String getSortThLink() > { > return getProperty(PROPERTY_STRING_SORT_TH_LINK); > } > Add the following to TableTag.properties: > sort.th.link=<a href="{0}">{1}</a> > In TableTag.java, in the writeTableHeader method, replaced this code: > // creates the link for sorting > Anchor anchor = new Anchor(getSortingHref(headerCell), header); > // append to buffer > header = anchor.toString(); > with: > // create Object[] including the HREF for the sort and the header text > Object[] objects = {getSortingHref(headerCell).toString(), header}; > // get sort th link > String sortedLinkFormat = this.properties.getSortThLink(); > // merge the final result > header = MessageFormat.format(sortedLinkFormat, objects); > The docs would need to change to reflect the additional configuration > parameter. > Name: sort.th.link > Default: <a href="{0}">{1}</a> > Description: Link to get you back to this page. Displayed in the column th > for sorting. {0}: Page Url; {1}: Column Title -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ displaytag-devel mailing list displaytag-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-devel
