hi, the problem is mentioned here http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=struts-user@;jakarta.apache.org&msgId=366811 to which I don't see a clean solution.
eg., imagine a form bean was populated with data from html:textareas. This data is later presented in read-only mode on another page using <bean:write>. Filtering does only half the job: e.g. '<' are substituted with '<', but linebreaks are not substituted with <br/>. Somebody might also want to keep consecutive spaces by substituting them with , although I find this unneccessary. htmlifying all the strings manually before storing them in the database is not an option because this means they cannot be updated from html:textarea anymore. Please don't suggest using <html:textarea disabled="true"> instead of <bean:write>:) A possible solution would be having an additional getter for each string field that would return that string in HTML format; this method would be used for bean:writes. However, I would prefer to have an additional attribute to bean:write (e.g keepBreaks="true") which would do the job. Does anybody else need that? I can easily extend WriteTag myself, but I wouldn't want to create a customized struts distribution just for my project. If someone knows a better solution to this, please let me know. Oleg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
