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Why use the Struts form tag?

 
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Can you please explain what is need of using jsp form tag if we have html tag or what is the advantages of JSP Form tag .

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There isn't a JSP form tag.

Are you perhaps confusing JSP with Struts or another framework?
 
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Hi,

Thanks Bear Bibeault i get confuse can you please explain what is need of struts form tag and what is JSTL.
 
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Please ask only one question per topic. JSTL is the JSP Standard Tag Library. Google for more information.

I'll move this topic, along with changing its subject, to the Struts forum for a discussion of its form tag.
 
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If you're using struts, then you should use the struts form tag because it make your job of writing struts pages easier.

At the end of the day it still generates an html <form> tag - but it can handle extra information related to struts.
eg what action to invoke when submitting the form - you can use


instead of


You remove from your markup
- your context web app name
- the .do extension used for struts

The form tag also acts as a container/owner for various variables that struts can use to construct your form
- the related bean/ActionForm the backs the current page (so it can populate values into the form)

Bottom line.
If you are using struts, why wouldn't you take advantage of the <html:form> tag to do some of the heavy lifting for you?

 
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