Display tag library - Tag reference

Display *: Tag Library

The display tag library is an open source suite of custom tags that provide high level web presentation patterns which will work in a MVC model, and provide a significant amount of functionality while still being simple and straight-forward to use. The primary tag in the library is the Table tag. This is version 1.0 .

caption Simple tag which mimics the html caption tag .
column Displays a property of a row object inside a table .
footer Tag wich should be nested into a table tag to provide a custom table footer .
setProperty Sets the indicated property on the enclosing Table tag .
table Displays a list in an html table, formatting each item in the list according to the Column tags nested inside of this tag .

Required attributes are marked with a * .

table

Displays a list in an html table, formatting each item in the list according to the Column tags nested inside of this tag. Use the list attribute to indicate the Collection of data, in some scope, that the tag should operate on. Supports the export of the list data to alternative formats such as CSV, Excel, and XML. The contents of the list can be sorted, and the list can be broken into individual pages for display. If you use this tag in Struts, or in some other framework where the page is included via a jsp:include, you should use the requestURI attribute to indicate where tag generated links should point.

Can contain: JSP

Example

            
<display:table name="someList" export="true" id="row" requestURI="MyAction.do">
  <display:column sortable="true" title="ID"> <c:out value="${row.id}"/> </display:column>
  <display:column property="email" autolink="true"/>
  <display:column property="description" title="Comments"/>
</display:table>

Attributes

Name	Description	Type
cellpadding	html pass through attribute. Better using "padding" css attribute in style or class	`String`
cellspacing	html pass through attribute	`String`
class	html pass through attribute	`String`
decorator	Fully qualified class name for a TableDecorator. Use a TableDecorator to provide custom operations against the whole list, such as computing totals. Must extend org.displaytag.decorator.TableDecorator.	`String`
defaultorder	The default order for the sorted column. Valid values are "ascending" (default) or "descending"	`String`
defaultsort	The index of the column that will be used by default for sorting (starting from 1)	`int`
excludedParams	Whitespace separated list containg the name of parameters which should NOT be forwarded during paging or sorting. You can use excludedParams="*" to match (exclude) any parameter.	`String`
export	enable/disable export. Valid values are true or false	`boolean`
frame	html pass through attribute.	`String`
htmlId	html "id" pass through attribute	`String`
id	See "uid". The id attribute can't be a runtime expression in jsp 1.0 compliant containers, while uid will allow it.	`String`
length	number of records to be shown	`int`
list	Reference to the object used as source for the table. Can be an expression like requestScope.object.property . You must define either the name attribute or the list attribute. Using "Name" is suggested.	`String`
name	reference to the object used as source for the table. Can be an expression like requestScope.object.property. In the EL version of the taglibrary this must be an EL expression which points to the source object.	`String`
offset	index of the first record to be shown	`int`
pagesize	number of records in a page	`int`
requestURI	When the present, links for sorting, exports, and paging are formed by adding any tag generated parameters to the value of requestURI attribute.	`String`
requestURIcontext	Enable/disable prepending of application context to generated links. Default is true, you can set it to false in order to generate cross-context links.	`boolean`
rules	html pass through attribute.	`String`
sort	Use 'page' if you want to sort only visible records, or 'list' if you want to sort the full list	`String`
style	html pass through attribute	`String`
summary	html pass through attribute	`String`
uid	Unique id used to identify this table. The object representing the current row is also added to the pageContext under this name and the current row number is added using the key uid_rowNum. Two tables in the same page can't have the same uid (paging and sorting will affect both). If no "htmlId" is specified the same value will be used for the html id of the generated table.	`String`
styleClass	@deprecated: use "class"	`String`
align	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
background	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
bgcolor	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
height	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
hspace	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
vspace	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
width	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
border	@deprecated html pass through attribute. Use css "border"	`String`
scope	@deprecated in displaytag 1.0. Use "pageScope.", "requestScope.", "sessionScope.", "applicationScope." prefixes in name. Not supported in the EL version of the tag.	`String`
property	@deprecated in displaytag 1.0. Use list.property in "name" attribute. Not supported in the EL version of the tag.	`String`

column

Displays a property of a row object inside a table. MUST be nested inside of a Table tag. The value displayed will be the results of a decorator (if any); else the property named by the 'property' attribute; or if the 'property' attribute is null, then the results of evaluating the JSP body of the tag.

Can contain: JSP

Attributes

Name	Description	Type
autolink	Automatically hyperlink URLs and email addresses that appear in the column. Defaults to 'false'.	`boolean`
class	html pass through attribute; use this instead of directly coding presentational atttributes.	`String`
decorator	The fully qualified class name of a class that should be used to "decorate" the underlying object being displayed. The class should implement org.displaytag.decorator.ColumnDecorator. If a decorator is specified for the entire table, then this decorator will decorate that decorator.	`String`
group	The grouping level (starting at 1 and incrementing) of this column (indicates if successive contain the same values, then they should not be displayed). The level indicates that if a lower level no longer matches, then the matching for this higher level should start over as well. If this attribute is not included, then no grouping is performed.	`int`
headerClass	"class" html attribute added only for header cells.	`String`
href	The base URL used to construct the dynamic link. If this attribute is provided, then the data that is shown for this column is wrapped inside a <a href> tag with the url provided through this attribute. Typically you would use this attribute along with one of the struts-like param attributes (param*) to create a dynamic link so that each row creates a different URL based on the data that is being viewed. An empty href value will generate a link to the current page, preserving parameters just like for paging links.	`String`
maxLength	If this attribute is provided, then the column's displayed is limited to this number of characters. An elipse (...) is appended to the end if this column is linked, and the user can mouseover the elipse to get the full text. Be careful on using this attribute for String which can contain html tags or entities, or together with the autolink attribute turned on: displaytag will do its best trying to avoid leaving unclosed tags or broken entities in the output, but a complex or bad input could lead to unattended results.	`int`
maxWords	If this attribute is provided, then the column's displayed is limited to this number of words. An elipse (...) is appended to the end if this column is linked, and the user can mouseover the elipse to get the full text. Be careful on using this attribute for String which can contain html tags or entities, or together with the autolink attribute turned on: displaytag will do its best trying to avoid leaving unclosed tags or broken entities in the output, but a complex or bad input could lead to unattended results.	`int`
media	Use this attribute to keep a column from being output during an export. The column will only render for the named media type(s) - it won't be added to the table if the current request media is not supported. Can be any space separated combination of 'html', 'csv', 'xml', 'all', or 'excel'. Defaults to 'all'. See the export page in the example webapp for more details.	`String`
nulls	By default, null values don't appear in the list. By setting 'nulls' to 'true', then null values will appear as "null" in the list (mostly useful for debugging). Defaults to 'false'.	`boolean`
paramId	The name of the request parameter that will be dynamically added to the generated href URL. The corresponding value is defined by the paramProperty and (optional) paramName attributes, optionally scoped by the paramScope attribute.	`String`
paramName	The name of a JSP bean that is a String containing the value for the request parameter named by paramId (if paramProperty is not specified), or a JSP bean whose property getter is called to return a String (if paramProperty is specified). The JSP bean is constrained to the bean scope specified by the paramScope property, if it is specified. If paramName is omitted, then it is assumed that the current object being iterated on is the target bean.	`String`
paramProperty	The name of a property of the current object being iterated on, whose return value will be used as the value of the parameter (named by the paramId attribute) that will be dynamically added to this href URL. If paramName is also specified the property will not be fetched from the object being iterated on, but from the bean specified by paramName. The support of paramProperty in conjunction with paramName will be probably removed in future: use paramProperty only if you need a property in the iterated object, elsewhere use only paramName (you can select a property using an expression name.property).	`String`
property	name of the property in the bean specified in the parent table tag (via the "name" attribute) mapped to this column	`String`
sortable	Set to 'true' to make the column sortable. Defaults to 'false'.	`boolean`
sortProperty	name of the property in the bean specified in the parent table tag (via the "name" attribute) which will be used to sort values in the column. This can be used when the column body is filled or a decorator is used and column should sort on undeorated values.	`String`
style	html pass through attribute.	`String`
title	title of the column (text for the th cell)	`String`
titleKey	Resource key used to lookup the title value. Only works if "title" is not defined. Works together with a configured I18nResourceProvider, specified via the displaytag.properties file. By default, if JSTL is available, the JSTL provider is used, which makes this attribute work the same as fmt:message's key property.	`String`
url	The base URL used to construct the dynamic link. This attribute has the same functionality as the href attribute, but it pre-pends the contextPath.	`String`
width	@deprecated; html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
styleClass	@deprecated: use "class"	`String`
headerStyleClass	@deprecated: use "headerClass"	`String`
sort	@deprecated: use "sortable"	`boolean`
align	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
background	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
bgcolor	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
height	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
nowrap	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
valign	@deprecated html attribute. Use "style" or "class" to set presentational attributes using css.	`String`
paramScope	@deprecated - use Expressions in paramName. The scope within which to search for the bean specified by the paramName attribute. If not specified, all scopes are searched. If paramName is not provided, then the current object being iterated on is assumed to be the target bean.	`String`

setProperty

Sets the indicated property on the enclosing Table tag. MUST be nested within a Table tag. As an alternative, you may create a property file that holds sitewide defaults; see the configuration documentation or the DisplayPropertiesLoaderServlet javadoc for information.

Can contain: JSP

Example

            
<display:setProperty name="paging.banner.placement" value="bottom" />
or
<display:setProperty name="paging.banner.placement">bottom</display:setProperty>

Attributes

Name	Description	Type
*name	The name of the property to set on the enclosing Table tag.	`String`
value	The value to which the property is set. You can also set the property value in the tag body.	`String`

footer

Tag wich should be nested into a table tag to provide a custom table footer. The body of the tag is outputted as is in the generated table in the tfoot section.

Can contain: JSP

Example

            
<display:table name="someList">
  <display:column property="mail"/>
  <display:column property="total"/>
  <display:footer>
  	<tr>
  		<td>total:</td>
  		<td><c:out value="${something}" /></td>
  	<tr>
  </display:footer>
</display:table>

Attributes

This tag has no attributes.

caption

Simple tag which mimics the html caption tag. Use it inside a table tag to display a caption.

Can contain: JSP

Example

            
<display:table name="someList">
  <display:column property="mail"/>
  <display:column property="total"/>
  <display:caption>This is the table caption</display:caption>
</display:table>

Attributes

Name	Description	Type
class	html pass through attribute.	`String`
dir	html pass through attribute.	`String`
id	html pass through attribute.	`String`
lang	html pass through attribute.	`String`
style	html pass through attribute.	`String`
title	html pass through attribute.	`String`

Reference

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