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Asked: 2026-05-11T01:48:02+00:00

I use struts-html to generate forms fields. For example: <%@ taglib prefix=html uri=/WEB-INF/taglibs/struts-html.tld %>

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I use struts-html to generate forms fields.

For example: 

<%@ taglib prefix='html' uri='/WEB-INF/taglibs/struts-html.tld' %>  <html:text property='email' styleId='email' size='44'/>

generates:

<input type='text' name='email' size='44' value='' id='email'>

As shown above the generated input tag is not closed. This causes my html to be not valid.

struts-html.tld includes: 

<tlibversion>1.2</tlibversion> <jspversion>1.1</jspversion> <shortname>html</shortname> <uri>http://struts.apache.org/tags-html</uri>

Does anyone knows why is the generated input not closed? Is there a newer version? Where can it be downloaded?

I tried using:

<html:html xhtml='true'>

which renders as: 

<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' lang='en-US' xml:lang='en-US'>

However, my input tags keep rendering unclosed.

Solution:

Use the tag: 

<html:xhtml/>

Note: If you use Tiles, as I do, use it directly inside your included jsp. It is not inherited from your base template file.

Note: Within xhtml mode you can not use sytleId inside a html:form tag. It is not a problem since the id property is automatically generated to store your bean’s name.

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  1. Can you not just use <html:xhtml/>?

    Using this tag in a page tells all other html taglib tags to render themselves as XHTML 1.0

    Alternatively you could use <html:html xhtml='true'>.

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