Or better yet you could put <set name="styleClass" value="@class"/> in the attributes of the baseHtml component of clay and then it would be picked up by all the descendants.
On 11/3/05, Ryan Wynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe that currently if the html attribute is not also an attribute on > the underlying component, then the html attribute will be treated as a > symbol. > So, in this case if userNameMessage is actually a h:message, then > <span jsfid="usernameMessage" class="errors" styleClass="errors"> > username error message > </span> > would produce <span class="errors">...</span> in both the designer and > developer views. > On the other hand if you wanted to utilize the new symbol functionality. > You would change > your clay-config.xml to add the following: > <component jsfid="usernameMessage"..> > <attributes> > ... > <set name="styleClass" value="@class"/> > </attributes> > </component> > Then you could just use > <span jsfid="usernameMessage" class="errors"> > username error message > </span> > in the html and still get the proper output in both designer and > developer views. > > On 11/3/05, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As part of my JavaOne session on Shale, I demo'd the fact that Clay lets > > you > > have two different views of the page: > > > > Designer view: http://localhost:8080/myapp/login.html > > > > Developer view: http://localhost:8080/myapp/login.faces > > > > To demonstrate that Clay was actually parsing the HTML template, in > > login.html I changed: > > > > <span jsfid="usernameMessage"> > > username error message > > </span> > > > > to the following instead ("errors" is a CSS style class that turns the > > text > > red): > > > > <span jsfid="usernameMessage" class="errors"> > > username error message > > </span> > > > > When you redisplay the designer view, this does indeed show a change in > > behavior -- the "username error message" string shows up in red. > > However, if > > you redisplay the developer view and then try to enter an invalid > > username/password, the text still comes up in black. One thing I > > noticed, in > > the emitted HTML markup for the developer view, the error message string > > is > > *not* surrounded by a <span class="errors>...</span>, which is (of > > course) > > why the text didn't change color. Did some behavior change recently in > > this > > regard? > > > > I'd be fine with some alternative way of accomplishing this sort of > > demonstration, but changing the HTML template and seeing the change > > applied > > immediately is a more compelling demo than something like changing > > clay-config.html. > > > > Craig > > > > >