check out logic:messagesPresent, it will do what you want for line item 2. There is a good example of using this in the book Professional Struts.
I know... I wrote that example ;) Rick Hightower Developer Struts/J2EE training -- http://www.arc-mind.com/strutsCourse.htm Struts/J2EE consulting -- http://www.arc-mind.com/consulting.htm#StrutsMentoring -----Original Message----- From: Brown, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 4:33 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List (E-mail) Subject: ActionErrors display Hi, I have been trying to work through the display of ActionErrors - both global and non-global (field level) - such that it would look something like the following HTML sample: <html> <head><title>Search Form</title></head> <body> <P><strong>The following errors have occurred:</strong></P> <UL> <LI><i>A global error has been detected</i></LI> <LI><i>Last Name is invalid.</i></LI> </UL> <p>Fields marked with a red background and a <img src="https://scgi.ebay.com/saw/pics/sitewide/warning_9x10.gif"; width="9" height="10" hspace="3" vspace="2" border="0"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif" size="2"> have failed validation.</p> <form name="search" method="POST" action="search.do"> <h3>Please provide the following search criteria information.</h3> <p>You must complete all of the fields marked with an asterisk <font color="red">(*)</font>.</p> <p><font color="red">*</font>Last Name: <input style="background: red" type="text" name="lastname" maxlength="25" size="25" value="Do!" title="Last Name is invalid."> <img src="https://scgi.ebay.com/saw/pics/sitewide/warning_9x10.gif"; width="9" height="10" hspace="3" vspace="2" border="0"></p> <p><font color="red">*</font>First Name: <input type="text" name="firstname" maxlength="25" size="25" value="John"></p> <input type="submit" value="Continue"> </body> </html> The desire is: 1. All errors will appear in one place - the top of the page. 2. Any field for which validation errors have been detected, would be further flagged in 1 of three potential ways: a. changing the fields background colour; b. marking it with an exclamation icon (thanks to eBay for the quick sample); or c. including the error message (in this case "Last Name is invalid.") in the title attribute of the input. #1 is easily achieved; however, I have been struggling with #2 in any form. The html:errors tag makes it very easy to output the message for a specific field, but I cannot seem to find a means to use it to "flag" that an error has occurred. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, James THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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