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Combobox Tag (Form Tag) Example
Posted on: March 19, 2008 at 12:00 AM

In this section, we are going to describe the combobox tag. The combo box is basically an HTML INPUT of type text and HTML SELECT grouped together to give you a combo box functionality. You can place text in the INPUT control by using the SELECT control o

Combobox Tag (Form Tag) Example

Add the following code snippet into the struts.xml file.
struts.xml

<action name="comboboxTag" class="net.roseindia.comboboxTag">
<result>/pages/uiTags/comboboxTag.jsp</result>
</action>

Create a list in the action class and populate it with various items as shown in the " comboboxTag" class.

comboboxTag.java


package net.roseindia;

i mport com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;

import java.util.*;



public class comboboxTag extends ActionSupport{

  

  private List fruits;

  public String execute()throws Exception{

  fruits = new ArrayList();

  fruits.add("Apple");

  fruits.add("Mango");

  fruits.add("Orange");

  fruits.add("Pine Apple");

  return SUCCESS;



  }



  public List getFruits(){

  return fruits;

  }

}

Create a jsp using the tags <s:combobox>

The tag <s:combobox label="Colors Name" name="colorNames" headerValue="--- Please Select ---" headerKey="1" list="{'Black','Green','White','Yellow','Red','Pink'}" /> prints a combobox with name color Nameand an HTML INPUT of type text and HTML SELECT grouped together created using the list.

The tag <s:checkboxlist name="Animals-name" list="animals" /> prints a combobox with name Fruits Name and an HTML INPUT of type text and HTML SELECT grouped together created using the "fruits" list of the action class "checkboxlistTag".

comboboxTag.jsp


<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>



<html>

  <head> 

  <title>Combobox  (Form Tag) Tag Example!</title>

  <link href="<s:url value="/css/main.css"/>" rel="stylesheet"

  type="text/css"/>

  </head>

  <body>

  <h1><span style="background-color: #FFFFcc">Combobox 

  
Tag Example!</span></h1>

  <s:form>

  <s:combobox label="Colors Name" name="colorNames" 

   headerValue="--- Please Select ---"

  headerKey="1" list="{'Black','Green','White','Yellow',

 
'Red','Pink'}" /><br>

  

  <!-- Use array list --><br>

  <s:combobox label="Fruits Name" name="fruitsNames"

    headerValue="--- Please Select ---"

  headerKey="1" list="fruits" />

  </s:form>

  </body>

</html>

Output of the comboboxTag.jsp:

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