Thanks, Craig. -----Original Message----- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 3:43 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: <html:text> issue
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Galbreath, Mark wrote: > Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 12:12:51 -0400 > From: "Galbreath, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: <html:text> issue > > Is there a way to suppress the default value for <html:text> when the > property of the bean is an int? I don't want a "0" showing in the textbox > when the property has not been set - it's screwing up validation. > The canonical answer is "don't do that". The design intent of Struts is that you use a String property in your form bean for values that ultimately need to be integers (or, basically, any other data type where a conversion is required, and the conversion might fail due to incorrect input). The primary purpose for this is so that a user who types in "1a3" can receive an intelligent error message back again, *and* see the "1a3" bad input in the text field so that they can fix it. This is a fundamental user expectation that well designed webapps should support. A side effect of making this form bean property into a String is that you can initialize it to "" or null, and avoid the "0" being displayed. > Thanks, > Mark > Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
