Ah! Well, that's easy. Don't add a label, but a AtributeBehavior (or one of its subclasses):
template: default value Java: add(new WebMarkupContainer("text").add(new AttributeAppender("class", new Model("red_border"), " "))); Result: default value I have no knowledge of a way to access the text that is in the template. Regards, Erik. severian wrote: > > Thanks for that Erik, I may well have to go with that if there are no > other suggestions. But I'm still keen to learn if I can keep the Label > text once I add a "wicket:id" attribute to the label markup. > > I may, for example, have to change (later in development) the > label-marking mechanism. So, instead of adding a "*" character, I may > have to colour the label red, or add a border, or whatever. So I was > looking for a way to centralise the label-marking mechanism in java, with > no impact on the markup, to make such a change as easy as possible. > > I figured the best way to do this was just to make the whole label a > wicket component, so that I could manipulate it however I liked in java. > But doing that seems to lose the label text altogether... > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Accessing-Template-Value-of-a-Label-tf3796116.html#a10737733 Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user