Regarding html:link

[Govind Rajith]

Hello,

I have a link which when clicked should pop-up a new window. I called a java Script function in the onClick of html:link but it shows an error message something like this:

javax.servlet.ServletException: Exception forwarding for name redirect: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot create rewrite URL: java.net.MalformedURLException: You must specify exactly one of "forward", "href", "page" or "action"
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:825)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:758)
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:68)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:324)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)


root cause

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Exception forwarding for name redirect: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot create rewrite URL: java.net.MalformedURLException: You must specify exactly one of "forward", "href", "page" or "action"
org.apache.struts.taglib.logic.ForwardTag.doForward(ForwardTag.java:125)
org.apache.struts.taglib.logic.ForwardTag.doEndTag(ForwardTag.java:105)
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_logic_forward_0(index_jsp.java:85)
org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:59)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:324)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)


Can anyone tell me what this error is. Also mention if any more details are to be included.

Regards
Govind Rajith

[Merrill Higginson]

What this message is telling you is that you must specify either an href, page, or action attribute with the <html:link> tag whether you use them or not. In this case, where you're using the onclick event to do the work, you just want to nullify the normal action that would take place as a result of the user clicking on the link. To do this, simply specify javascript:void(0) as the link. Example:

<html:link href="javascript:void(0)" onklick="myFunction()" />