format in a text field

[Mathur Neni]

I have gone through the message and replies regarding - "How to Use bean:write inside html:text". But I couldn't trace out the solution to my problem from that.
I got a field (and defined the property in DynaValidatorForm) which is of type java.util.Date and this is being populated in the action class. I want to store this in a text field.
I think the following is not possible.
<html:text property="mydt"
value="
<bean:write name="form" property="mydt" format="mm/yyyy" />
" />
If I am trying this, it displays fine with the format
<bean:write name="form" property="mydt" format="mm/yyyy" />
But how to format the date in a text box??
Is it possible to access a dynavalidatorform property in jsp Scriplets?

[Nimchi Yung]

The problem is that you cannot have a start a new tag
as an attribute of another tag.
There are a few solutions to that.
1) Use scriptlet
2) Use struts-el tag
3) Or

  
   
   <input type="text" name="mytextbox" value="<bean:write .../>">

--Nimchi

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[Mathur Neni]

Hi Nimchi,
Is it possible to access a dynavalidatorform property in jsp Scriplets?
Thanks in advance.
Mathur

[Marc Peabody]

First you get a reference to a form. You can do something like this in a scriptlet:
myForm = request.getAttribute("formNameFromStrutsConfig")
(Change request to session if it is in session scope.)
And then you can call the methods on the form reference from your jsp scriptlets.