In the HTML spec, there are many tags which don't require an ending tag.
The <input> tag is one such element. The XML-like self-closing tag is not
part of the HTML spec. I've seen a lot of this with struts and other tools
which use XML. Another example is the <br> tag which is often improperly
specified as <br/>. Since it doesn't have an associated end tag, page
authors often mistakingly specify this tag as <br/>. There are many more
examples.
So, the way Struts does this via <html:image/> is correct.
-Tom
Tom Maccariella
Sengen
-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 11:27 AM
To: Struts-User
Subject: Beta 1 image tag bug
I just converted my project to the Beta 1 version of struts and encountered
a problem with the <html:image/> tag. The image tag appears to be eating
the closing quote on the property (name) attribute. The <html:image/> code
worked fine with struts.jar from 2/21.
Here's some test jsp code:
<td colspan=4 align=center>
<html:image property="Logon" src='<%=ip+"images/btnLogon.gif"%>'/>
<input type="image" name="Logon" src='<%=ip+"images/btnLogon.gif"%>'
border="0">
</td>
And here's the output html:
<td colspan=4 align=center>
<input type="image" name="Logon src="en/images/btnLogon.gif"> <--- no
closing quote
<input type="image" name="Logon" src='en/images/btnLogon.gif' border="0">
</td>
Thanks,
Denis Hanson
