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Can I use Struts tags inside plain HTML tags?

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Hi All:
I am just wondering

Can I use <logic:iterate> with plain <html> tags?

is the following valid?

In general, can you combine struts tags within your HTML tags? pls let me know. I am new to struts.

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posted 19 years ago

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Originally posted by dog lin:
In general, can you combine struts tags within your HTML tags?

Yes, you can. The JSP compiler treats any tags it doesn't recognize as a taglib as "print this stuff as-is into the output stream".

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okay..thnx...
but the above code shoud work correctly right? with STRUTS tag and HTML tags, i mean, the above code is suppose to generate a drop down box , correct? let me konw.

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You need to create a drop down.

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Can I use <logic:iterate> with plain <html> tags?
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You can use any Struts tags together with HTML tag in the JSP, if you have defined what taglibs you are going to use inside the JSP. Such as:

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html-el.tld" prefix="html" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/fmt.tld" prefix="fmt" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/c.tld" prefix="c" %>

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Remember though that making the page's components regular html tags instead of struts tags loses the automatic prepopulation benefits.

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Anyway, as Lasse said in another thread, it is recommended to use standard JSTL as much as possible that the Struts tags, unless you really need, like the Struts Form tag.

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