Theres a couple of outstanding enhancement requests in bugzilla which talk about a label tag:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20784 http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18015 Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Germuska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:08 PM Subject: Re: Display message beside input field using struts validator > At 3:49 PM -0600 11/8/04, Struts User wrote: > >Hello, > > > >Currently, I am using struts validator to validate the fields in my > >ActionForm. > > > >Before I updated to struts 1.2.4, I could add an error this way - errors.add( > >"username", new ActionError("error.username.required")); > > > >If the validation failed, the error message for username will be > >displayed right beside the user name text field if I use <P>Username: > ><html:text property="username"/></P>. > > > >Can someone tell me how to display error message beside an input field > >using struts validator? > > I've never seen any automatic message placement. You can access > messages like this: > > <html:messages property="username" id="msg"></html:messages> > > html:messages is effectively a combination logic/iterator tag. If > there are any "username" messages in the ActionMessages object saved > as the "errors" messages, the body of html:messages will be evaluated > once for each, with a scripting variable of type String defined with > the name specified in the "id" attribute. You can use c:out or > bean:write to display this value, wrapped with span, div, or other > tags which format your messages correctly. > > I kind of think someone talked on the list once about making > something which rendered an HTML "label" tag and which was also > "smart" about the presence of errors. I like the idea of something > like that in general, but wonder if you'd be able to specify > something suitably general for inclusion in Struts. Seems like it > might be better left for local development. > > Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
