We have an running application that is developed in struts-2.0.14. In this we used Ajax theme for displaying contents.
This ajax theme is running properly in all browsers except IE9 browsers, In IE9 this ajax theme making problem . The result is showing in new tab instead of showing in target element(div) specified by targets property.
Parent Page
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<s:head theme="ajax" debug="false" />
</head>
<body>
<s:url id="changePwd" action="changePassword" />
<s:div theme="ajax" id="pwdDiv" executeScripts="true" href="%{changePwd}" loadingText="Loading..."/>
</body>
</html>
Inner page
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt" %>
<s:form action="changePassword" id="resetPassword" name="resetPassword">
<s:textfield name="username" id="username" />
<s:password showPassword="true" name="newpassword" id="newpassword" value="%{newpassword}"/>
<s:password showPassword="true" name="confirmpassword" id="confirmpassword" value="%{confirmpassword}"/>
<s:submit value="Confirm" showLoadingText="false" onclick="clearMsg();" theme="ajax" targets="pwdDiv" executeScripts="true" cssClass="userbutton" />
</s:form>
When Submitting the form in Inner Page the resulting page is popup into new tab. actually it should replace the content of pwdDiv.
Note: the same working properly in other browsers including (IE7,8)
Update:
making showLoadingText as true making the request as Ajax but the values are passed as null (password,confirm password ect,. -all fields)
Adding
type="button"ins:submitbutton solve the problem. Don’t know what is behind this !