Hello, Has anyone tried to make the struts tags xhtml compliant? Here is what I mean.
I have noticed that whenever an html component is generated using the html tags (or any other tag from the libraries), they are usually not closed. For example, when generating a form input field using: <html:text property="whatever"> the html code generated looks like: <input type="text" name="whatever" value=""> when it should really look like this: <input type="text" name="whatever" value="" /> (Notice the / to close the tag) This is a problem when you want to enforce a specific DOCTYPE to your web-application. The problem can easily be fixed... are struts developers thinking about this problem? It would be nice to have this addition to Struts 1.7 Aladin > The way I have done this is I have the following on all my pages: > > <body onLoad="hidePleaseWait();"> > <%@ include file="/inc/pleaseWait.inc" %> > <span id="lyrMain" style="display:none;"> > > pleaseWait.inc is the HTML for my Please Wait display. For me, it's a > little clock with spinning hands and a message artistically offset saying > "Please wait, the system is busy processing your request..." centered on > the page. The important point is that the first and last lines of that > include file are: > > <span id="lyrPleaseWait" style="display:block;"> > ... > </span> > > Just before I submit any form, I call showPleaseWait(), which is a > Javascript function in pleaseWait.inc, and it is basically just: > > lyrMain.style.display = "none"; > lyrPleaseWait.style.display = "block"; > > One last piece of the puzzle... that hidePleaseWait() function called > onLoad is: > > lyrMain.style.display = "block"; > lyrPleaseWait.style.display = "hide"; > > So, every page that loads starts out showing that Please Wait layer, and > when it's done loading it hides that and shows the main content. When a > form is submitted, the main content is hidden and the Please Wait layer is > shown. It works quite well. > > I actually do something a bit more complex in one of my apps because it is > frames-based and I actually target all submissions to a hidden frame, but > the overall concept is the same. So, if you don't have a problem with the > requirement of scripting, this works well. > > -- > Frank W. Zammetti > Founder and Chief Software Architect > Omnytex Technologies > http://www.omnytex.com > > On Tue, May 24, 2005 9:26 am, Marc Demlenne said: >> Hi all, >> >> Using Struts, I'm looking for a good practice to have a "Please wait >> box" displayed to the user when the action he has requested takes a >> long time. >> >> My requirements are not to display another page to keep the browsing >> "smooth". I use a JSP tree which can be expanded/collapsed, but the >> page must stay the same between the calls. So I'd like a small box >> added in front of the actual window. >> >> What I could do is to use a javascript to show or hide a small box in >> a corner of the window for instance. The problem is that i want this >> box to be displayed immediately when the ActionClass is called, and >> hided only when the result page is fully displayed. This is very easy >> when it is the displaying of the page which is slow (when the logic is >> inside JSP), but doesn't seem so easy with struts, where it's the >> action that can take time. >> >> Can anyone help me with this ? >> >> -- >> Marc Demlenne >> GPG : 768FA483 (http://pgp.mit.edu) >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
