Don't put it inside the JSP tags <% and %> put it inside <SCRIPT> or html tags and surround those with your JSP statements in there own tags -
example: (snip) } catch(SQLException sqle){} } %> <SCRIPT SRC='OODAClient.js'></SCRIPT> <html> <head> <link REL="stylesheet" HREF="../Common/styles.css" TYPE="text/css"> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2" SRC="../Common/OODAClient.js"></SCRIPT> <title>Item Lookup</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a:link { color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none} a:visited { font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none} a:hover { font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; color: #FF0033; text-decoration: none} .selectitems { font-size: 11px; color: #000000; font-weight: normal} .pick { font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000} .links { color: #0000FF; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif} --> </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <script language=JavaScript> function doRefresh(theFilter) { var QS; QS = "ItemsGrid.jsp?ActiveOnly=" + document.cbform.cbUseActive.checked + "&filter=" + theFilter; self.location=QS; } </script> <p align="left"> <% if(bCustomerCheck) { %> <blockquote> (snip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miao, Franco CAWS:EX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:58 PM Subject: how to embed Javascript in Jsp? > Basically I would like to put javascript file .js inside <% %>, > just don't know the syntax. thanks! > > > Franco > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com