Hello Everyone: I've come across an interesting issue that I'd like to share with everyone with the hopes that someone might be able to provide an explanation or solution.
I have a form with a bunch of text fields. One of these fields I want to have disabled (disabled="true"). So using the struts tag library I have the following: <html:text property="role" size="16" maxlength="16" disabled="true" /> When I first load this form, everything is prepopulated as it should be in the form. I submit the form leaving some fields blank so that I can ensure my validation works. The validation works fine as the I am redirected back to the form with the appropriate error messages. However, the text field mentioned above (role), is no longer prepopulated. Everything else is except that text field. I took out the disabled="true" and submitted the form again and the next time around the text field WAS prepopulated. I put back disabled="true" and the field WAS NOT prepopulated. So I realized that disabled="true" is causing a glitch somewhere. After scratching my head for a while I decided to put the Visual Age Debugger to use to see if I could see what was going on. This is what I found out: When I go to the form the very first time, the setRole(String role) method in my form bean is getting called and therefore that property gets set. But when I submit the form and I have disabled="true" in the text field, the setRole(String role) method never gets called therefore the property never gets set. A very interesting thing is that I looked inside the request object with the VAJ debugger and the role parameter is not there when I submit my form to my validation action with disabled="true" in the text field. When I took out the disabled="true" the role parameter was inside the request. So the problem boils down to the fact that the parameter is not included in the request object when using disabled="true" and therefore does not get set. If anyone has seen this problem and has a fix or suggestion, please let me know. Thanks in advance ********************************************** Juan Alvarado Internet Developer -- Manduca Management (786)552-0504 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL Instant Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
