html:button Struts jsp code

[Kim Kantola]

Hi All,
I have been looking online for jsp code examples using the struts tag <html:button> but can find very few mentions of it. Is this because it is not used much? Is there a better tag to use if I have a page with 4 buttons, each which will redirect the user to one of 4 differant pages?
Thanks for any ideas,
Kim

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Kim,
A google search turns up quite a few examples. The first one is excellent.

[Kim Kantola]

Thank you for your reply. I am actually interested in buttons which when clicked will redirect the user to another jsp, not radio buttons. I have googled html:button but didn't find much about non-radio buttons. Any other tips very appreciated.

[Kinjal Sonpal]

Originally posted by Kim Kantola:
Thank you for your reply. I am actually interested in buttons which
when clicked will redirect the user to another jsp, not radio buttons. I
have googled html:button but didn't find much about non-radio buttons. Any
other tips very appreciated.

If you are not really allergic to a mix of JavaScript and struts-tag, then
it's possible like this.

<script>
function doSubmit (command) {
 if (command == 'someValue') 
  document.myForm.action='<html:rewrite forward="/actions/SomeAction"/>';
 document.myForm.submit ();
}
</script>

This will allow you to fire form submission based on some dynamic
condition. If you need a simple link kind of effect (no form submission),
then, document.location="<html:rewrite ... />" can do the trick.
And then the place, wherever you require a button,

<html:button name="myForm" property="myButton" onCilick="doSubmit('SomeParameter');" value="Click Here" />

I use this to provide more than one Actions for a single form. Please note that Click, here, is intentionally misspelt to pass through the forum posting. It does not allow html codes.

HTH.

Thanks and regards,
Kinjal Sonpal

[Marc Peabody]

A method without javascript:

If the buttons all have different text, you can give them all the same name and have your action match up the text of button with your forward.

If any of the buttons contain the same text (ie all say "Edit"), then you must give each one its own name with getters and setters for each. There are a multitude of tricky things you can do behind the scenes in your form and action to determine which button was clicked and which forward to use. Google should help find some.

[Kinjal Sonpal]

Originally posted by Marc Peabody:
A method without javascript:
If the buttons all have different text, you can give them all the same name and have your action match up the text of button with your forward.

If any of the buttons contain the same text (ie all say "Edit"), then you must give each one its own name with getters and setters for each. There are a multitude of tricky things you can do behind the scenes in your form and action to determine which button was clicked and which forward to use. Google should help find some.

Hmmm... Very interesting way. I never realised this. One more thing Mark. I'm using DispatchAction for this. As you can guess, I'm using JavaScript code to determine, which method of DispatchAction should be called and accordingly I attach the value for the query parameter. I'm not getting a clearer idea as to how the above metioned way can be implemented. Please throw some more light on this.

Thanks and regards,
Kinjal Sonpal
[ June 03, 2004: Message edited by: Kinjal Sonpal ]