how to select an individual row in a table without checkboxes

This is how it goes:

Your JSP

<nested:form action="yourAction.do">

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<table>

//Form bean should have a collection variable "rows", with getters and setters

<nested:present property="rows">

<nested:iterate property="rows">

//uniqueId and longName are variables of your collection attribute objects

<nested:hidden property="uniqueId"/>

<tr>

<TD class="formData" onclick="javascript:selectRow('yourAction.do?uid=<nested:write property="uniqueId"/>')">

<nested:hidden property="longName"/>

<nested:write property="longName"/>

</TD>

</tr>

</nested:iterate>

</nested:present>

</table>

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Your javascript function in jsp

<script type="text/javascript">

function selectRow(URL) {

document.getElementsByTagName('BODY')[0].style.cursor = 'wait';

document.rowForm.action = URL;

document.rowForm.submit();

}

</script>

Your action class

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String rowUniqueId = request.getParamater("uid");

//Thus you know which row has been selected

//Store your row id in DB

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Hope that makes things clear. Use nested form, it makes easier to manage multiple forms in your jsp. For reference on struts tags you can refer to:

http://struts.apache.org/1.x/struts-taglib/tlddoc/index.html

SirG

SirGenerala at 2007-7-12 14:44:53 >

> how can I write on click event for each <tr> then?

Just write it :) Make use of the 'this' property.

HTML<form name="formname">

<input type="hidden" name="selectedRowId" />

<table>

<tr id="someAutogeneratedId" onclick="selectRow(this);">

...

The "someAutogeneratedId" should be an unique identifier.

JS<script>

function selectRow(tr) {

document.formname.selectedRowId = tr.id;

document.formname.submit();

}

</script>

Servlet:String selectedRowId = request.getParameter("selectedRowId");

Edit hm, I have to write faster, I guess :o)

SirGeneral: the "javascript:" declaration is not needed as the onclick actually always expects JavaScript.

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BalusC

BalusCa at 2007-7-12 14:44:53 >

The above code takes to particular link just by clicking on the row itself. I need to have 3-4 options associated with click event.

Also, all these options and the row must be populated in GUI - for example in this post if some one clicks on reply and enters text, the text is displayed in a row with default values like reply- edit and send it as an e-mail.

PaviEluri20a at 2007-7-12 14:44:53 >