can we use rowspan and colspan in displaytag?

Question

I have to create a table, whose structure is like this

|--------------------------------|  
|col1|col2|      col3       |col4|  
|    |    | col3.1 | col3.2 |    |  
|----|----|--------|--------|----|  
|----|----|--------|--------|----|  

Is it possible to create such a datagrid using display tag?

Immediate

Displaytag: displaytag.sourceforge.net/1.2 – Immediate

What the heck, i used the displaytag tag and it is david who removed that tag from the question. Anyways does it make any sense Maybe you should ask someone who works on display tag? In SO there are lots of question related to Displaytag. How could i know that the person who will try to answer don't even know displaytag and still want to answer. – Immediate

There updated your question to have the correct tagging, like you originally had it, other than that good luck, never heard of this product. – Degradation

If you don't know what X is but you're interested to know about, just Google X and move along. This kind of comments only clutters and distracts the whole question (sigh). – Astronomer

Answer 1

Check out the decorator examples (http://displaytag.sourceforge.net/1.2/tut_decorators.html), that is your best bet.

Another way to do it is to add the content of the cell manually, like so:

<display:column titleKey="something" media="html">

       <c:out_of_property_here>

</display:column>

If I remember correctly, if my table was defined like:

<display:table name="test" requestURI="some_uri"
    defaultsort="0" id="test" export="true" excludedParams="*" >

you would access the current element using test, so if the object you are displaying has a property id with a getter getId, you would access the current object in the list by writing test.id.

But I would try using a decorator first (you can add decorators per-column iirc), the second option is very messy.

Ryanryann

at present i am using the later soltion, [ using c:out inside display:column ], but i guess i should check out that decorator too. – Immediate

what it <c:out_of_property_here> – Merralee