Mike Dewhirst wrote:
> As a lot of forms may have JavaScript in them to dynamically rebuild menus, etc. Is
>it possible to combine this with the Struts tag-styled form design?
>
The challenge with doing this is that the JSP tags run on the server (as the page is
being generated), while the JavaScript runs on the client side. To integrate the two,
you need your tags (and other JSP code) to dynamically generate the JavaScript
functions themselves -- sort of having a program write a program --
so that the JavaScript is customized to your particular need on this particular page.
A very trivial example is the way that the <html:form> tag deals with the "focus"
attribute. If you specify it, a dynamically generated bit of JavaScript is created to
set the input focus, which includes the name of the field you want initial focus
assigned to.
For a more comprehensive scenario, consider that for most menuing systems you will
need to configure the list of available options into a JavaScript array or something.
You could use the <logic:iterate> tag to render the elements that get set in the
array's initialization expression.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Mike
>
Craig
