Oh, and Laurie, just so you know, putting an anchor on a mappings input JSP
page won't work. That was tried in one of my 1000 attempts :)
On 6/22/05, Dylan Stamat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your comments everybody.... I fiiiiiinally found the answer :)
>
> I'm still using the DynaValidatorForm, and basically just had to do what
> Laurie recommended in her 2nd point.
> I just need to check for messages on the JSP page using the
> messagesPresent logic tag... ie:
>
> <logic:messagesPresent>
> <script>
> setTimeout('self.scrollBy(0,500)', 300);
> </script>
> </logic:messagesPresent>
>
> Using "document.location" would cause an infinite loop, so I basically
> needed to scroll down the page using a timeout.
>
> *Phew... Struts has so many crazy tags, I learn new ones every day :D
> Thank to all that helped, and let me know if you have any
> suggestions/questions.
>
> Thanks !
> ==
> Dylan
>
>
>
>
> On 6/22/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure if you can tell the browser to scroll to an anchor from
> > within the page (rather than in the URL). It would have to be done using
> > Javascript, HTML doesn't provide this.
> >
> > Other than Javascript, I can think of two possibilities:
> >
> > 1) in your JSP, check for errors and, if they exist, render a
> > browser-side redirect as the response where the redirect is to the same URL
> > but with the anchor appended. You'd have to put any data the page needed
> > into session scope (or append it to the redirect URL) to maintain it across
> > the redirect, though.
> >
> > 2) if the input to the validating action is a path to a JSP (as opposed
> > to a Tile name or action), you can add the anchor there. I.e. in
> > struts-config.xml for your action, you'd include
> >
> > input="/path/to/page.jsp#anchor"
> >
> > That way, if validation fails, it'll forward to the 'input' path which
> > includes the anchor you need to target.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > L.
> >
> > Dylan Stamat wrote:
> > > Thanks Wendy !
> > >
> > > The problem I'm running into is that since I'm using a
> > DynaValidationForm,
> > > and errors are found, I'm never even reaching my Action... so, the
> > setting
> > > of the anchor in the request wouldn't work.
> > >
> > > I would somehow need to determine if there "were" errors on the JSP
> > page
> > > itself (like the struts tag "html:errors" does)... and then apply the
> > > necessary logic.
> > >
> > > Any ideas ? Thanks !
> > > ==
> > > Dylan
> > >
> > > On 6/22/05, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >>From: "Dylan Stamat" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>
> > >>>When validation finds that there are errors, and returns to the form
> > >>
> > >>page
> > >>
> > >>>with displayed errors... I want to anchor to the lower part of the
> > large
> > >>>form page... so, only the errors and the form shows... not the text
> > >>
> > >>above.
> > >>
> > >>>Anybody have any ideas on how to do this !?
> > >>>I've tried about 100 different hacks, with no luck.
> > >>
> > >>The problem is that when the page is rendered (when the links and
> > form's
> > >>action are determined) you can't _know_ whether or not there will be
> > >>errors.
> > >>It hasn't been submitted yet... the user hasn't even seen it.
> > >>
> > >>See if this helps:
> > >>http://wiki.wendysmoak.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?JumpToAnchor
> > >>
> > >>You'd probably want to test for the presence of errors, and skip
> > setting
> > >>the
> > >>request attribute.
> > >>
> > >>--
> > >>Wendy Smoak
> > >>
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