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From: Stefan Gebhardt <stefan.gebhardt@abas.de>
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Subject: Re: S2 <s:submit   not reliable?
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:59:36 +0200
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On Wednesday 23 April 2008 14:51:56 Jeromy Evans wrote:
> Stefan Gebhardt wrote:
> > Hi s2 users!
> > I like to render a html button element.
> >
> >   <s:submit type="button" title="new" value="%{getText('common.themes.'+#attr.THEME+'.editing.new')}"
> >         cssClass="${pageScope.divClass}" id="btn_new"/>
> >
> > Most of the times <s:submit does not render the title attribute. what i get on the page is
> > <button id="btn_new" class="localTooltipSensitiv create" value="New" type="submit">New</button>
> > sometimes i get
> > <button id="btn_new" class="localTooltipSensitiv create" title="" value="New" type="submit">New</button>
> >
> > Both result are not correct. Is it a bug? Did i make a mistake? Can you give me hint, please?
> >
> > greets
> > stefan gebhardt
> >   
> Congratulations, you've managed to hit three struts issues in one go:
>  1. OGNL is confusing
>  2. Struts2 doens't provide enough developer feedback
>  3. struts2 submit tag of type button doesn't support the title attribute
> 
> Explanation:
> 1. Like most attributes of Struts 2 tags, the title attribute is 
> evaluated as an OGNL expression.  By coincidence, you've used the 
> reserved word 'new'.
> 
> I think the first issue may be that 'new' is an invalid expression 
> and/or causes conflicts.  First, force it to a string to avoid that risk:
> 
> <s:submit type="button" title="%{'new'}" ...
> 
> 2. You may not be getting any useful feedback about it (such as invalid 
> expression or invalid property) because you're not using a recent 
> version of Struts2.  This is evident by this line:
> 
>  cssClass="${pageScope.divClass}" id="btn_new"/>
> 
> which has not been supported since 2.0.10.  I have tried it in Struts 
> 2.1.1 though and it still evaluates title="new" to the literal string 
> "new" without any warnings.
> 
> 3. The template for the submit tag is indeed missing the title 
> attribute. The tag supports it but not the template. You'll have to 
> create a custom template to enable it.  Feel free to raise an issue in 
> JIRA if there isn't one already there for this.
> 
> Creating a custom template is straight-forward. Copy the submit.ftl 
> template out of the struts2-core jar and modify it as described here:
> http://struts.apache.org/2.0.11.1/docs/extending-themes.html
> You need to add 3 lines to the template which you'll see there already 
> for type=submit
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Jeromy Evans
> 
> 
> 
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Hey Hey great answer! Thank you a lot. 

it helped
stefan

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