On 10/14/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some nice scripting without Ajax, just Javascript and CSS: > http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2005/10/05/form/form4.htm > I wish Struts Validator could be that cool :-)
It CAN be. I spent some time last night figuring out the javascript/struts tags portion of it, but now I'll have to actually know how Validator works to hook it up with what I have so far. The idea is you have a set of controls dedicated to a particular field. For starters, this is what I have: <html:label property="firstName">First Name</html:label> <html:text property="firstName" /> <html:error property="firstName"/><br/> The <html:label> should be able to support getting its string from resources of course: <html:label property="firstName" key="personForm.firstName.label"/> (Also shows the 'default' key I'm thinking of using if neither text nor key is provided.) Also, a tag to enclose related tags will make things easier: <html:field property="firstName" <html:label/> <!-- default "key" would be used --> <html:text/> <html:error/><br/> </html:field> The resulting HTML would look like: <label for="personForm.firstName" id="personForm.firstName.label">First Name:</label> <input type="text" name="firstName" id="personForm.firstName"> <span id="personForm.firstName.error" style="display:none"></span> Now when the user submits the form, Validator will go through all fields and figure out which ones pass and which ones are invalid. If a property is invalid: * the label's class can be changed * the span is shown and is used to show a validation error for that property It can be done. I think I'm halfway there, though once I get there all I'll have is a proof-of-concept using a custom set of tags which won't allow you to use custom "id" values. Hubert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
