Hi David, Thanks for the reply. I was doing all these and it was not working out.What i was missing out was the return type in the doStartTag needs to be EVAL_BODY_BUFFERED.
thanks vijith "David M. Karr" wrote: > >>>>> "Vijith" == Vijith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Vijith> Hi All, > Vijith> Is there anyway in which I can prevent the body inside a custom tag from > Vijith> appearing in the output. > > Vijith> ie > > Vijith> <emptag> > Vijith> this is the text > Vijith> </emptag> > > Vijith> Now i donot want this is the text to appear in the output > > Vijith> but i want to get this text in the Custom Tag Handler and then modify it > Vijith> and tehn put it back to the body > > Vijith> I would like to get it as > > Vijith> This<br>is<br>the <br>text > > Read almost any reference about building JSP custom tags. You'll find that a > tag class extending BodyTag can call "getString()" on the body content, massage > the value, and then use the "getPreviousOut()" method on the tag handler to get > the writer to write the output to. You can get a brief summary of this in the > JSP tutorial on the Sun web site. > > -- > =================================================================== > David M. Karr ; Java/J2EE/XML/Unix/C++ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; SCJP; SCWCD > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > > Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://forums.java.sun.com > http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant archives, FAQs and Forums on JSPs can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://forums.java.sun.com http://www.jspinsider.com
