I18N struts tag value

[Chris Pat]

Hello
One more question on I18N to complete this project.
What is the syntax to internationalize/localize the value="xx" in all the strut tags? I have tried <html:text property="field0" value="${myMessagResourceBundle.field0.label}"/>, which doesnt work. I also tried eliminating it entirely and setting it in the formBean reset(), which also didnt work. Where am I wrong? tia.

[Merrill Higginson]

One feature of Struts tags that's not very well documented is the fact that if you provide a body for the tag, it will be used in the place of a value attribute. So, in your example, the following should work:

<html:text property="field0" ><bean:message key="field0.label" /></html:text>

I normally don't like to set values for fields in the JSP, though, because it doesn't work for validation. If the JSP is redisplayed due to a validation error, the value will show as the default value, not the value the user entered.
[ December 20, 2007: Message edited by: Merrill Higginson ]

[Chris Pat]

Originally posted by Merrill Higginson:
One feature of Struts tags that's not very well documented is the fact that if you provide a body for the tag, it will be used in the place of a value attribute. So, in your example, the following should work:

<html:text property="field0" ><bean:message key="field0.label" /></html:text>

I normally don't like to set values for fields in the JSP, though, because it doesn't work for validation. If the JSP is redisplayed due to a validation error, the value will show as the default value, not the value the user entered.

[ December 20, 2007: Message edited by: Merrill Higginson ]

Hi
Excellent edification, on both.
I defer to your experience with the validation. This is just for proof of concept. The difficulty was that I was trying to set the value of strut tags that are not input, i.e. button, submit, so if they are hardcoded for their localization that is actually fine on validation. It works great. Thank you.