Add <html:label> tag to output HTML label

• Key: STR-1305
• Type: New Feature
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Paul Benedict
• Reporter: Leonardo Quijano
• Component/s: Tag Libraries
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0

Environment

Operating System: All
Platform: All

Description

It would be useful to have a tag that just writes a form's value.
We already have one:

<html:hidden property="foo" write="true" />

The problem is that it generates a HTML INPUT in addittion to the text. That
INPUT could interfere with the form's submission, and it adds bloat to the
page.It would be nice to have a custom tag just to generate the form's text.

I know i could also expose the form as a bean (I guess it would be <bean:struts
... />). But that could tie the JSP to the form's name, and that's not a good think.

Maybe the tag could be something like:

<html:label property="foo" />

And it would get property "foo" from the form and write it like a bean:write. It
could be even:

<html:label property="foo.x.y.z" />

Leonardo