Re: Struts: form with multiple text fields with same name.

[Ed Jenkins <andexor@yahoo.com>]

Generally speaking...

Radio buttons that are part of the same set should share the same name, but have different values.
 Each one should also have a unique ID (per page) assigned if they are going to be scripted.

Other input fields should not share names.  It is not really a good idea to treat textbox fields
as an array.  Just because you can doesn't mean you should.  If you need multiple lines, consider
using a textarea instead of a textbox.  In some cases, that is preferable.

Ed

--- Poorav Chaudhari <pooravc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In my web form, i have many similar fields. I have named all of them the same.
> for example <html:text property="referenceName" name="someForm"/> and there are
> five of these. my actionform bean has an array declared for these fields and so
> hopefully the five fields should populate the array. and in fact it does. but
> my problem is that if my form is invalidated, and my action class takes me back
> to the same page the all the text fields show some funny junk something like 
> [Ljava.lang.String;@55a 
> instead of the original value that i had entered. (if there was no error, and i
> access the field through the form i get the correct value). 
> which is probobaly the memory address for that array cell, i don't know. why is
> this happening? is there any documentation out there that shows how to deal
> with this type of form? in my jsp form i have explicitely typed out these five
> fields and not used any iteration function to display it. does this have
> something to do with this. 
> 
> your help will be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> =====
> Poorav Chaudhari


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