The problem is in the origionally "selected" item when the page is rendered.
for example
> <html:select name="userForm" property="roleName" value="Team Leader">
> <html:option value="-1">-- Select a Role -- </html:option>
> <html:options collection="Roles" property="name" />
> </html:select>
would set the roleName "TeamLeader" as selected by default. However, if you
don't wan't the page designers to have to worry about the initially selected
value, or want to make it dynamic, you would have to use something like:
> <html:select name="userForm" property="roleName"
value="<%=bean.getTheItemWeWantSelected">
> <html:option value="-1">-- Select a Role -- </html:option>
> <html:options collection="Roles" property="name" />
> </html:select>
whick commingles JSP and struts' tags. It works, but it aint pretty.
D
PS: Does anyone know, if I use
<%jsp:useBean id="bean"...>
could i then use
<html:select ... value='<jsp:getProperty id="bean"
property="theItemWeWantSelected">'>
Thanks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Te Whau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 12:55 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: html:select/options
>
>
> This works for me:
>
> <html:select name="userForm" property="roleName">
> <html:option value="-1">-- Select a Role -- </html:option>
> <html:options collection="Roles" property="name" />
> </html:select>
>
> where the userForm.getRoleName() method will return a value that matches
> with one of the values returned by the getName() method of the objects
> stored in the Roles collection.
>
> HTH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DHarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 6:31 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: html:select/options
>
>
> Good question, and what if you want to get the value from a bean?
>
> Is value='<@=bean.getsomthing()%>' the only way?
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pham Thanh Quan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:23 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: html:select/options
> >
> >
> > But how to keep the choice that user chose in the last time he submitted
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Joe Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:12 PM
> > Subject: RE: html:select/options
> >
> >
> > > Use the 'value' attribute to make the selection. For example
> assume you
> > > have a dropdown of countries and one entry is 'United States' the code
> > > below would select 'United States'.
> > > <html:select
> > > property="country" value="United States">
> > > ...
> > > </html:select>
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET
> > >
> [mailto:IMCEACCMAIL-struts-user+40jakarta+2Eapache+2Eorg+20at+20INTERNET
> > > @alltel.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:38 AM
> > > To: Clark, Joe; [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET
> > > Subject: html:select/options
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a way to dictate which "option" in a collection is initially
> > > set
> > > as
> > > "selected" when the page is rendered?
> > > ex
> > > <html:options collection="Roles" property="name" /
> > >
> > > For example, I have a collection of projects that are rendered by the
> > > <html:options tag. I also have some java script which updates a
> > > project
> > > description box when the selection is changed. The problem is
> > > when the page
> > > is first rendered, the two don't always match up. I initialize the
> > > description box to the first item in the collection, but the
> > > select doesn't
> > > always choose the first item.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > D
> > >
> >
