Changes for page Struts2 Tag Guide

Last modified by Ken McWilliams on 2012/04/05 01:21

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5 5  1. Data
6 6  1. Form
7 7  1. Control
8 -1. Non-Form U
8 +1. Non-Form UI
9 9  1. Ajax
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11 11  **Data** tags are used to output data to a jsp, typical uses include displaying values collected by the action and displaying links to other actions.
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13 13  **Form** tags can display data like Data tags as they can supply a default value, but are used to render html form elements. **Note**: Struts2 Form tags render using a //theme //so if you find it difficult to lay out the page as you would expect I would recommend //[[changing the theme to //simple//>>doc:Struts2 Themes]]//.
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15 +**Control** tags cover conditions, iteration and tags to manipulate collections before iterating over them.
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17 +**Non-Form UI** tags allow you to display action messages, errors for fields or for the action and lets you render custom components they you have made in other JSPs, freemarker or velocity.
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19 +**Ajax** tags **DON'T USE THEM** they have been [[deprecated>>url:http://struts.apache.org/2.2.3/docs/ajax-tags.html]]. People hearing this decide that the Struts2 jQuery Tag library is the way to go, this too is generally not the case.