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# component

Please make sure you have read the Tag Syntax document and understand how tag attribute syntax works.

## Description

Renders an custom UI widget using the specified templates. Additional objects can be passed in to the template using the param tags.

Render a custom ui widget

### Freemarker:

Objects provided can be retrieve from within the template via `$parameters._paramname_`.

### JSP:

Objects provided can be retrieve from within the template via `<s:property value="%{parameters._paramname_}" />`

In the bottom JSP and Velocity samples, two parameters are being passed in to the component. From within the component, they can be accessed as:

### Freemarker:

`$parameters.get('key1')` and `$parameters.get('key2')` or `$parameters.key1` and `$parameters.key2`

### JSP:

`<s:property value="%{parameters.key1}" />` and `<s:property value="%{'parameters.key2'}" />` or `<s:property value="%{parameters.get('key1')}" />` and `<s:property value="%{parameters.get('key2')}" />`

Currently, your custom UI components can be written in Velocity, JSP, or Freemarker, and the correct rendering engine will be found based on file extension.

Remember: the value `params` will always be resolved against the ValueStack so if you mean to pass a string literal to your component, make sure to wrap it in single quotes i.e. `value="'value1'"` (note the opening `"'` and closing `'"` otherwise, the value stack will search for an Object on the stack with a method of `getValue1()`.

If JSP is used as the template, the JSP template itself must lie within the webapp itself and not the classpath. Unlike Freemarker or Velocity, JSP template could not be picked up from the classpath.

(!) templateDir and theme attribute

> The final path to the template will be built using the templateDir and template attributes, like ${templateDir}/${theme}/${template}. If for example your component is under /components/html/option.jsp, you would have to set templateDir=”components”, theme=”html” and template=”options.jsp”.

> For any Struts tag that you use in your component, make sure that you set its templateDir=”template”

## Attributes

#### Dynamic Attributes Allowed: false
#### Name | #### Required | #### Default | #### Evaluated | #### Type | #### Description
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
accesskey | false |  | false | String | Set the html accesskey attribute on rendered html element
class | false |  | false | String | The css class to use for element - it's an alias of cssClass attribute.
cssClass | false |  | false | String | The css class to use for element
cssErrorClass | false |  | false | String | The css error class to use for element
cssErrorStyle | false |  | false | String | The css error style definitions for element to use
cssStyle | false |  | false | String | The css style definitions for element to use
disabled | false |  | false | String | Set the html disabled attribute on rendered html element
errorPosition | false |  | false | String | Define error position of form element (top|bottom)
id | false |  | false | String | HTML id attribute
javascriptTooltip | false | false | false | Boolean | Use JavaScript to generate tooltips
key | false |  | false | String | Set the key (name, value, label) for this particular component
label | false |  | false | String | Label expression used for rendering an element specific label
labelPosition | false |  | false | String | Define label position of form element (top/left)
labelSeparator | false | : | false | String | String that will be appended to the label
labelposition | false |  | false | String | (Deprecated) Define label position of form element (top/left)
name | false |  | false | String | The name to set for element
onblur | false |  | false | String | Set the html onblur attribute on rendered html element
onchange | false |  | false | String | Set the html onchange attribute on rendered html element
onclick | false |  | false | String | Set the html onclick attribute on rendered html element
ondblclick | false |  | false | String | Set the html ondblclick attribute on rendered html element
onfocus | false |  | false | String | Set the html onfocus attribute on rendered html element
onkeydown | false |  | false | String | Set the html onkeydown attribute on rendered html element
onkeypress | false |  | false | String | Set the html onkeypress attribute on rendered html element
onkeyup | false |  | false | String | Set the html onkeyup attribute on rendered html element
onmousedown | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmousedown attribute on rendered html element
onmousemove | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmousemove attribute on rendered html element
onmouseout | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmouseout attribute on rendered html element
onmouseover | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmouseover attribute on rendered html element
onmouseup | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmouseup attribute on rendered html element
onselect | false |  | false | String | Set the html onselect attribute on rendered html element
requiredLabel | false | false | false | Boolean | If set to true, the rendered element will indicate that input is required
requiredPosition | false |  | false | String | Define required position of required form element (left|right)
style | false |  | false | String | The css style definitions for element to use - it's an alias of cssStyle attribute.
tabindex | false |  | false | String | Set the html tabindex attribute on rendered html element
template | false |  | false | String | The template (other than default) to use for rendering the element
templateDir | false |  | false | String | The template directory.
theme | false |  | false | String | The theme (other than default) to use for rendering the element
title | false |  | false | String | Set the html title attribute on rendered html element
tooltip | false |  | false | String | Set the tooltip of this particular component
tooltipConfig | false |  | false | String | Deprecated. Use individual tooltip configuration attributes instead.
tooltipCssClass | false | StrutsTTClassic | false | String | CSS class applied to JavaScrip tooltips
tooltipDelay | false | Classic | false | String | Delay in milliseconds, before showing JavaScript tooltips
tooltipIconPath | false |  | false | String | Icon path used for image that will have the tooltip
value | false |  | false | String | Preset the value of input element.

## Examples

### JSP

    <s:component template="/my/custom/component.jsp"/>

or

    <s:component template="/my/custom/component.jsp">
        <s:param name="key1" value="value1"/>
        <s:param name="key2" value="value2"/>
    </s:component>

### Velocity

    #s-component( "template=/my/custom/component.vm" )

or

    #s-component( "template=/my/custom/component.vm" )
        #s-param( "name=key1" "value=value1" )
        #s-param( "name=key2" "value=value2" )
    #end

### Freemarker

    <@s..component template="/my/custom/component.ftl" />

or

    <@s.component template="/my/custom/component.ftl">
        <@s.param name="key1" value="%{'value1'}" />
        <@s.param name="key2" value="%{'value2'}" />
    </@s.component>