Re: no setters for page elements?

On Monday 15 September 2003 03:46, Matthew Hixson wrote:
> I'm just wondering why the generated Java source for my HTML contains
> getters, but no setters for elements I've defined in a form.  For
> example, to set the value for the first name on my form I need to do:
>
> form.getElementFirstName().setValue("Matt");
>
> This is no big deal, but I'm just curious why there isn't a
> setElementFirstName(String s).  I'm sure there's a good reason.

Which of the dozen tags should have methods generated for them?  Value? Type? 
Id? onmouse*()?   All of them would be verry wasteful.  

Furthermore, setElementFirstName woud take an Element, not a String.

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David Corbin <dcorbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>