Question

I am creating and filling a text-boxes from an arraylist using struts iterator. Now all the generated text-boxes have same “ID”, even if didn’t give id for each element. I want either the ID’s to be unique or no ID’s at all.

<s:iterator value="specificationList" status="status">
    <s:textfield name="specification" />                            
</s:iterator>

Expected output

<input type="text" value="Test Spec1" name="specification">
<input type="text" value="Test Spec2" name="specification">
<input type="text" value="Test Spec3" name="specification">

or

<input type="text" id="specification1" value="Test Spec1" name="specification">
<input type="text" id="specification2" value="Test Spec2" name="specification">
<input type="text" id="specification3" value="Test Spec3" name="specification">

Actual Output

<input type="text" id="specification" value="Test Spec1" name="specification">
<input type="text" id="specification" value="Test Spec2" name="specification">
<input type="text" id="specification" value="Test Spec3" name="specification">

I also tried s:form themes simple and css_xhtml all these creating id’s for the text-boxes

Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Give it an id.

(Untested, but close; off the top of my head.)

<s:iterator value="specificationList" status="status">
  <s:textfield name="specification" id="%{#status.count}" />
</s:iterator>