struts validation occurring when page loads instead of on submit

Question

Please forgive me; I am sort of new to struts. I am having an issue where my validation is occurring when the page loads instead of when i actually submit my form. I have been

Answer 1

The validation runs before the action as specified in the validation file name, regardless of the result. So if you have one action to both display and process the form, then validation will run on that action before displaying and also before processing the form.

If this is not the behavior you want, move the display/load of the page to a different action.