Change isRequired star position in Struts 1

Question

I am using Struts 1 on a form and need to mark some inputs as required. The thing is that the red star ('*') showing the required fields when marking them with isRequired="true" is by default shown right after the textbox:

Is there a way to change the star position to the left, right before "Input"?

If needed, the code of this is now:

<layout:text property="input" key="form.input" styleClass="FormInput" mode="E,E,I" isRequired="true" />

Answer 1

You will likely have to write your own custom tag that basically extends the layout:text tag but overrides the output (i.e. where the star is generated if the field has an error).

Start here: http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/doc/JSPTags.html You could probably skip ahead to the "Examples" page, but the other stuff is good to know too