As Jeff said, people seem to forget that the taglibs are really in a sense an extension of Struts. Struts works just fine without them (I know because I've done some pretty complex work without them). They are nice, as are taglibs in general, no argument here, but I see a lot of people stumbling with taglibs because they don't understand what's going on without them, so they wind up being less help than they otherwise should be.
My point is simply that, as with most good technology, use custom tahs with care. Don't simply assume that they are the solution to every problem. I frankly go to the extreme of NOT using them unless I have a problem tha is ideally solved by them, which tends to not be the case too often. I'm not saying go to that extreme, just venture forth with a little caution is all.
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com
Jeff Beal wrote:
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<FORM METHOD="LINK" ACTION="BuildPostMessageViewAction.do"> <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Post message for this classmate"> </FORM>
This works fine, but I have to ask, is this how a purely struts application
should be written, or is there a truly struts-based solution to what I was
trying to do?
Thanks!
I, for one, don't have any problems with this approach from a Struts standpoint. This does what you want to do without creating any unnecessary overhead. I can't think of anything more struts-like than that. I think that too many people on this list forget that the Struts custom tags are really an offshoot of Struts, not the central thing. They make it easier for a JSP page to work with the framework, but they are not necessary. The fact that you are linking to an Action instead of a JSP page tells me that this is a "struts-based" solution.
That said, my strict HTML standards compliance antennae are all a-quiver. It looks like what you want here is a basic link that "looks like" a button; you don't need to have an HTML form at all. You can do that with CSS:
<style type='text/css'> a.fakeButton { background-color: gray; border-style: outset; } a.fakeButton:active { border-style: inset; } </style>
<a href="BuildPostMessageViewAction.do" class="fakeButton">Post message for this classmate</a>
(Haven't tested that; may not work perfectly; should come pretty close.)
-- Jeff
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