Re: Enhancement Request - add label and labelKey to form elements

[Erik Hatcher]

This is eerily similar to my <custom:label key="..."/> tag which generates field labels, along with an asterisk if its a required field and a different style (currently red) if the field is in error.

This will be part of the app I post up this week too.

Erik


Matt Raible wrote:

I agree, and does require more work, considering:

<html:label for="name">
<bean:message key="prompt.username"/>
</html:label>

Is more typing than:

<label for="name">
...
</label>

Maybe something like this would make it more useful:

<html:label key="prompt.username" />

I was thinking of reducing the prefixes in my struts-xdoclet app from:

html -> h
logic -> l
bean -> b
tiles -> t
nested -> n

Would this create too much confusion (even though it would require less
typing?)?
It much rather type <h:label key="prompt.username" />

Matt

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From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 12:25 PM
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Subject: Re: Enhancement Request - add label and labelKey to form elements


I don't see what advantage the <html:label> tag has over hand coding the html. Looks like the same amount of work to me.

David

From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Enhancement Request - add label and labelKey to form elements
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:14:10 -0800 (PST)

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Matt Raible wrote:

Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:10:33 -0700
From: Matt Raible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Enhancement Request - add label and labelKey to form elements

I thought I'd run this idea by the development team

before entering

it into Bugzilla.

One of the items that is required with 508 compliance is

a <label>

value for each form element:

For example:

<label for="name">Name:</label>
<input type="text" id="name" size="50" name="name" />

More information at: http://www.csuohio.edu/uctl/508/forms.html

This would typically be rendered with Struts tags using:

<label for="name">Name:</label>
<html:text name="name" styleId="name" size="50"/>

To make it easier, we could do:

<html:text name="name" styleId="name" size="50"

label="Name:"/> OR

<html:text name="name" styleId="name" size="50" labelKey="prompt.name"/>

The problems I see with this are that you lose some

control over the

presentation (i.e. a <br /> after the label or labels in

a separate

<td>). However, it might be useful for rapid prototyping and code-generating tools. My hope someday is that the JSP simply renders XML, and then an XSL stylesheet is applied, and in this case, the presentation issues would disappear?

What does everyone think? Would anyone use it?

I think a way to create <label> elements would be very

useful. I just

don't think we should embed it in the existing UI element

tags (for the

reasons that others have articulated.

How about a new <html:label> tag instead. Then, you could do things like this on the logon page in struts-example:

...
<tr>
<th align="right">
<html:label for="name">
<bean:message key="prompt.username"/>
</html:label>
</th>
<td align="left">
<html:text styleId="name" property="username" size="16"
maxlength="18"/>
</td>
</tr>
...

(I thought you tied labels to elements with the "id" ???)

The above approach assumes that it's not necessary to localize the element id itself (which would really complicate attempts to

generate

JavaScript event handlers), but you do (of course) need to

localize the

text of the label.

This also imposes no restrictions on the mechanisms by which

you manage

layout, and can be easily retrofitted onto existing pages.

Thanks,

Matt

Craig


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