Bern McCarty wrote:
> What about a custom JSP tag designed to replace the use of html:img tags.
> The custom tag could produce a correct html:img tag as it's output, complete
> with localized alt text.
>
A patch to do this kind of thing was submitted recently -- it's on my queue of
things to look at.
Craig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 1:21 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Internationalised 'alt' text
>
> Can anybody suggest how I can add internationalised alt text to the
> <html:img> tag?
>
> If it were legal I would like to do something like the following;
>
> <html:img src="someImage.png" alt="<bean:message
> key='someImage.alt.text'/>"/>
>
> but you can't nest tags like this.
>
> If not does anybody think it would be useful to add an optional 'id'
> attribute to the <bean:message> tag which, if set, causes the translated
> message to be stored in a page context bean with the given name rather than
> being written out? This would allow me to write something like;
>
> <bean:message id="altTxt" key="someImage.alt.text"/>
> <html:img src="someImage.png" alt="<%= altTxt %>"/>
>
> It would also allow translated strings to be cached in the page if they are
> going to be used repeatedly (inside a <logic:iterate> tag, for example).
> This may improve performance considerably.
>
> Any comments?
>
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> Howard Moore
> Senior Software Engineer
> Datapulse CTI
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