Another problem with including in-page links using something like
<html:link href="/some/page.html#bottom"/>
as you suggest is that you can't set parameters using the 'name' or
'paramXXX' attributes because it would produce something like;
<a href="/some/page.html#bottom?param=value">
not
<a href="/some/page.html?param=value#bottom">
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Moore
> Sent: 29 January 2001 09:21
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: LinkTag
>
>
> The example I chose wasn't very good. In that case it would
> be much simpler
> to do as you suggest. However you can't do the same thing if
> your link is
> based on an ActionForward. An example that I actually use is
> as follows.
>
> <html:link forward="/search/hierarchy" paramId="id" paramName="row"
> paramProperty="values[1].value" linkName="<%= hid.toString() %>">
>
> It is part of a page that displays a hierarchical set of
> results and uses
> the link name to scroll to the required node. Without this
> modification I
> couldn't see any way of achieving this.
>
> Also, the behaviour I've added is exactly what I expected the
> linkName to do
> when I noticed it had been added. It seems to me to be more
> consistent for
> it to be able to generate both a target and a link to that
> target rather
> than just the first.
>
> Howard.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 27 January 2001 04:13
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: LinkTag
> >
> >
> > Howard Moore wrote:
> >
> > > Another tag modification for consideration.
> > >
> > > I've modified the LinkTag so that if both name and linkName
> > are specified a
> > > link to a target on a page is built. For example this;
> > >
> > > <html:link href="/some/page.html" linkName="bottom">
> > >
> > > now produces this;
> > >
> > > <a href="/some/page.html#bottom">
> > >
> >
> > Is there a particular reason that doing it this way would be
> > better than:
> >
> > <html:link href="/some/page.html#bottom"/>
> >
> > ? I'm concerned about making it hard to understand what the
> > linkName attribute
> > is for.
> >
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------------
> > > Howard Moore
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
>
