Best Approach to Designing a Page of Check Boxes

[Steve Dyke]

I am useing the div tag approach on my web page. I have a div tag being populated with a JSP that depending on user input will be populated with a list of check boxes.

The checkboxed represent a list of values from a remote data source.

The number of check boxes will be dynamic and there value(checked or not) will be determined from data source values.

I currently have this working using javascript to build a table.

Would it be better to use JSTL in the JSP to do this?

[Paul Clapham]

I would say so. If nothing else it removes the minor problem that your page doesn't work if the client has Javascript turned off. But even if it were mandated that we didn't care about that, I would still do it in JSTL. I reserve Javascript for processing that has to take place on the client.

[Bear Bibeault]

Of course. Why build JavaScript to build the DOM when you can just build the DOM?