How to disable struts 2 Table generation for Form?

Question

Struts 2 automatically generate HTML table for it's <s:form> tag. How can I disable it? Any help will be appreciated. Thank You.

We need to start marking duplicates of this... This has been answered many times. — Quaternion, Dec 30 '10 at 21:42

Umesh Awasthi · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-03T12:19:54.410

30

Struts2 have theme generation functionality based on which it generares either Table based HTMl code for its tags default is x_html which is your case . You can avoid this by setting theme as simple on page level or each tags has theme property which will generate div based html contents

<s:form name="test" theme="simple">

or you can set theme for entire page as below static value

<s:set name="theme" value="'simple'" scope="page" />

property

<s:set name="theme" value="%{myTheme}" scope="page" />

you can set it across entire application by

<constant name="struts.ui.theme" value="simple" />

edited Oct 03 '13 at 12:19

answered Dec 30 '10 at 08:53

Umesh Awasthi

23,407
37
132
204

10

If you'd like to accomplish this across your entire project then use in your struts.xml file. – A. R. Younce Feb 25 '11 at 19:09

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 02 '12 at 12:14

8

Just add

<struts>
    <constant name="struts.ui.theme" value="simple" />
    <package name="default" extends="struts-default">

constant name="struts.ui.theme" value="simple" in struts.xml. It wont apply struts default themes.

answered Oct 02 '12 at 12:14

Muthu

1,550
10
36
62

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 30 '10 at 16:32

2

Another possibility would be using the usual HTML tag.

answered Dec 30 '10 at 16:32

Akku

4,373
4
48
67

2

Very obvious and often overlooked! – Quaternion Jan 01 '11 at 22:31

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 30 '10 at 14:58

1

setting simple theme avoids the use of advanced validation in forms (i think). you should use css_xhtml template either adding following line to your struts.xml

<constant name="struts.ui.theme" value="css_xhtml" />

or specifically in concrete areas of your code, like form

<s:form name="test" theme="simple">

This way you get html elements with their css classes assigned, ready to be styled with css.

answered Dec 30 '10 at 14:58

Jose Miguel

36
2

i meant `` – Jose Miguel Dec 30 '10 at 15:04
simple theme is what you have mentioned css_xhtml – Umesh Awasthi Dec 31 '10 at 06:37
simple and css_xhtml are not the same. To avoid autogenerating opening and closing tags inside de , you should use css_xhtml: http://struts.apache.org/2.0.14/docs/cssxhtml-theme.html
– ArBR Jul 05 '11 at 22:21

How to disable struts 2 Table generation for Form?

4 Answers4

Linked