form:label is broken for checkboxes [SPR-7452]

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Axel Fontaine opened SPR-7452 and commented

The following jsp code:

My Box Label</form:label>

gets translated to

\\\My Box Label\

This is wrong!

The correct code should be

...\...

Cheers, Axel

P.S.: #8226 got fixed automatically with the move to Java 5 and autoboxing

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Affects: 3.0.3

4 votes, 5 watchers

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Juergen Hoeller commented

This is actually why has a 'label' attribute: If you specify a value there, it'll be rendered as a label for the specific id of the checkbox. Whereas a separate tag is basically independent from the checkbox tag and renders a label for the specified bean property path.

Juergen

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Axel Fontaine commented

Well, the label attribute is nice for the most basic situations. As soon as you want sopmething even as simple as assigning an id to the label, you're out of luck.

Why can't the checkbox have the same id as its name? This would solve this issue automatically.

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Marc Wiest commented

I agree with Axel. I need a cssClass on the label for example. I guess the problem is, that there can be multiple checkboxes or radio buttons with the same path and different values. So, I'd suggest one of the following:

1. Add labelCssCass, labelId, etc. attributes to form:checkbox (and form:radiobutton)

2. Add a value attribute to form:label, in order to match the checkbox/radiobutton with the given value. Unfortunately the values don't have to be unique, so this seems not very elegant.

Right now, we're stuck with using and \ which is a shame, given the auto-indexing capability the other fields have.

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Juergen Hoeller commented

Closing groups of outdated issues. Please reopen if still relevant.