Hi , As Wendy has mentioned- Otherwise, the place to do this is in your Action, before you forward to the JSP.
I am interested in populating Form before loading jsp page so that I can assign values to HTML comtrols. HOw to do that? On 8/4/05, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: "Chris Decker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > New to struts so sorry for the simple questions. > > I have a html: checkbox struts tag and I want to have the checkbox > > checked initially similar to the checked attribute in a traditional > > INPUT statement. > > Can you do this? I've looked everywhere! > > If it's a dynamic form, you can set a default value in struts-config.xml: > > <form-bean name="contactForm" > type="edu.example.ContactForm"> > <form-property name="onHoldFlag" > type="java.lang.Boolean" initial="true"/> > </form-bean> > > Otherwise, the place to do this is in your Action, before you forward to > the > JSP. You only need to set the default the first time the form is > displayed. > Exactly where and how depends on how you've written the app-- do you have > a > 'setup' action that's separate from the one that handles form submission? > > The reset method is not the place to set defaults. In fact, you will need > to set that checkbox to false/off in the form's reset method. If you > don't, > you will find that there is no way for the user to to un-check it. > > A couple of checkbox links from the FAQ: > http://struts.apache.org/faqs/newbie.html#checkbox > http://struts.apache.org/faqs/newbie.html#reset > > -- > Wendy Smoak > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
