Prevent Struts2 escaping html in labels?

[Xolani Nkosi]

Hi all.

I'd like to use a jquery-ui icon on a struts2 button to add a bit of visual flair to an app. The code in the jsp looks something like:

<s:submit type="button" cssClass="right el-button ui-state-default ui-corner-all" action="updateWorkflow!lockItem" label="%{getText('updateWorkflow.submit.lock')}" value="%{#attr.workflowItem_rowNum-1}" />

And my application.properties text is:

updateWorkflow.submit.lock=<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-locked" />Lock

This almost does what I'd like, except somewhere along the line the html in the message has been escaped. The html generated looks like:

<div align="right"    id="wwctrl_updateWorkflow_input_updateWorkflow_lockItem">
<button type="submit" id="updateWorkflow_input_updateWorkflow_lockItem" name="action:updateWorkflow!lockItem" value="1" class="right el-button ui-state-default ui-corner-all">
&lt;span class=&quot;ui-icon ui-icon-locked&quot; /&gt;Lock
</button>
</div> 

Any ideas what is doing the escaping and how to stop it? Or if anyone has done what I'm attempting and has a better way of doing it (preferably that will allow adding icons to buttons to be made via application.properties changes only)

[David Newton]

You might have to change the template or use normal CSS. The current "xhtml" theme templates (css_xhtml might be a little better, I know someone made some enhancements to it) aren't super-good at exposing ids/classes to CSS.

All that said I'd really recommend against putting markup stuff in resource files unless there's a *really* good reason to do so. Since the label field would be accessible using straight CSS I don't think this is one of the places where it'd be necessary.