Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
Struts taglib has many tags that encapsulate Struts/servlet constants/variables and expand them into plain HTML tags. As an example, take a look at <html:base> tag.
Consider the "home.jsp" page is located in directory "pages". Let us also consider that application context is defined as "myapp".
An <html:base> tag specified in home.jsp page will generate something like this:
<base href="http://myserver:8080/myapp/pages/home.jsp">
A suggested alternative to <html:base> tag would look like:
<base href="${pageroot}">
Another example, <html:link>.
Instead of
<html:link action="/myAction">My Action</html:link>
one would use
<a href="${contextroot}/myAction">My Action</a>
The benefits:
- Tag library can be simplified
- No need to support proper HTML attributes for different tags; why Struts should care whether HTML developed by a programmer is valid or not?
- The markup looks more like real HTML
- HTML editing software will not choke on custom tags
- No hidden meaning, no side effects, just plain old HTML.
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Issue Links
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STR-2197 [taglib] new tag to handle relation (html <link>)
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- Open
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