Templates in struts 2

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I have the following JSP in my application.

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" %>
<%@taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s"%>
<html>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/default.css" media="screen"/>
		<title></title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<h3><font face="Georgia"><i>Enter Student Details</i></font></h3>
		<s:form>
			<s:div id="oddRow"></s:div>
			<s:div id="evenRow">
				<s:div id="leftMargin"/>
				<s:div id="label">Roll Number</s:div>
				<s:div id="middleMargin"/>
				<s:div id="labelValue"><s:textfield id="rollNumber" name="" size="" value="" tooltip=""/></s:div>
				<s:div id="rightMargin"/>
			</s:div>
			<s:div id="oddRow"></s:div>
			<s:div id="evenRow">
				<s:div id="leftMargin"/>
				<s:div id="label">First Name</s:div>
				<s:div id="middleMargin"/>
				<s:div id="labelValue"><s:textfield id="firstName" name="" size="" value="" tooltip=""/></s:div>
				<s:div id="rightMargin"/>
			</s:div>
			<s:div id="oddRow"></s:div>
		</s:form>
	</body>
</html>

When struts renders the JSP the Labels are displayed in one place and the input in another place. Please see attached screenshot for details.

I want the input fields to be displayed next to the labels.

I was discussing this with a collegue, and he says, I need to modify the templates for this to work. Is this true? Is there no other way than modifying the templates??? May be use CSS???

I want the input fields to be displayed next to the labels.

What would be the best approach???

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Rajkumar Katudia wrote:
When struts renders the JSP the Labels are displayed in one place and the input in another place.

There's two options:
1. Use the "label" attribute of the form tag to declare the label. This will create table and row tags around the label-text field pairs
2. Use the "simple" template, which does not create any layout. That should work with your code above.

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Joe Ess wrote:2. Use the "simple" template, which does not create any layout. That should work with your code above.

Yes, I opened struts core jar. How/Where do I specify that struts should use simple template.

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It's a struts property: struts.ui.theme. You can set it in the struts.properties file, or directly in your struts.xml file using a <constant name=.../> tag. The options are simple, xhtml (the default), css_xhtml and ajax.