If you bear in mind that it's usually best to seperate mark-up and content, then
you would break the string down into smaller parts:
<fmt:message key="please.sign.in.part1"/>
<a href="login.jsp"><fmt:message key="please.sign.in.part2"/></a>
<fmt:message key="please.sign.in.part3"/>
Then the problem is that in some languages you might break the string down
differently. Ideally you would choose a different way of doing it, e.g.
<a href="login.jsp">Please click here to sign in.</a>
or
Please click here to sign in: <a href="login"><img src="nice.gif"/></a>
but if you don't have any choice in the matter, I guess you are stymied.
Generally speaking, HTML in the message resources is best avoided. However it
probably works with the fmt:message tag. I think I've done that before myself.
My last thought is that it might be better to supply the URL to the href as a
parameter
<fmt:message key="please.sign.in"><fmt:param>login.jsp</fmt:param></fmt:message>
please.sign.in=Please <a href="{0}">click here</a> to sign in.
- might make maintenance easier.
Asad Habib on 20/02/08 11:18, wrote:
Hello Nuwan. Doing it the way you proposed defeats the purpose since I
have to place this string in a bean first. I would like to retrieve
this string directly from message resources and display it with the
html intact. Is there any to do this? Thank you for your suggestion.
- Asad
On Feb 20, 2008 1:07 AM, Nuwan Chandrasoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
why dont you try the <bean:write> tag with filter attribute as false.
Thanks,
Nuwan
Jeromy Evans wrote:
Oh, sorry, I assumed you were using Struts 2. That's a feature of the
default tag library.
Sorry, I don't know the answer for Struts 1.x
Asad Habib wrote:
Hello Jeromy. What tag library are you using for this?
- Asad
On Feb 19, 2008 11:19 PM, Jeromy Evans
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You may be able to do it with s:property, disabling escaping of the
html:
<s:property value="getText('some.key')" escape="false"/>
Asad Habib wrote:
Hello. How do I represent the following in a message resources file?
Representing a string literal is easy but the following string
contains a link. Can this even be done? I have used variables with the
validator before but there is no validator involved in this case.
Thank you.
Please <a href="login.jsp">click here</a> to sign in.
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