active link highlighting with help of tiles

[Tuomo Sirén]

Dear all,

I'm trying to use tiles as help when highlighting my active links with struts 2.

In my tiles.xml file I have:

  <definition name="home" extends=".main">    
     <put-attribute name="content" value="/pages/home.jsp" />
     <put-attribute name="active" type="string" value="home" />
  </definition>

And in the .main template jsp

<%@ taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles" %>
<tiles:importAttribute name="active" />
.
.
.


However, when I try to access the variable 'active'

 <s:if test="%{${active} == 'home'}">
     <li class="active">
 </s:if>
 <s:else>
     <li>
 </s:else>

I see nothing coming out of ${active}.

My understanding is that this kind of task should be possible if not easy with tiles.

Any help appreciated,


Tuomo Sonninen
 

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