Hi,

How do i mention the default status of the check box as true in a
struts form am using <html:checkbox>

Thanks in advance
Sri

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Hi,
  In the ActionForm, create a boolean property for the checkbox and assign it as ture in the form reset method.

Thanks
Satish

Satish,

Your proposed design does not work for checkboxes. Checkbox values are only submitted from the browser to the server if they are enabled. Therefore if the reset() method sets the form value to true, and the client unchecks the checkbox before submitting, there is no mechanism to set the form value to false.

I am mentioning this because I want to do the same thing as the original poster in my application. Originally I tried the solution you proposed here (though through my own hacking), and then I ran into the problem I just discussed. I'm not sure what the actual solution is yet.

Jon Emerson
http://slashdot.org/~panaceaa

Hey... so the solution I'm going with is to just set the booleans to true in my Action if the request is not a form submission (e.g. an initial hit to the form). I wish there was a more declarative way of doing it, though ...

By the way, Struts, The Complete Reference by James Holmes (for Struts 1.2) confirms that checkbox values must be set to false in the reset() method.

Jon Emerson
http://slashdot.org/~panaceaa