Might be your nested quotes ..... try using different quote characters to define the
nested string ie.
style='<%=pageContext.findAttribute("styleVar").toString()%>'
S.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rahul Mohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 04 February 2004 09:09
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: <c:out> tag inside <html:text> tag
>
>
> Hi Max,
>
> Thanks for the reply...
>
> I have found a work around for the problem...but it looks wierd!!
>
> These are the steps I performed:
>
> 1. I am setting the styleVar as follows:
>
> <c:set var="styleVar">
> <c:choose>
> some JSTL conditional stmts
> </c:choose>
> </c:set>
>
> 2. Then I retrieve the value using the following scriptlet:
>
> <% String str = pageContext.findAttribute("styleVar").toString(); %>
>
> 3. Now I can use the value of str inside my <html:text> tag as follows:
>
> <html:text
> name="Customer"
> property ="Name"
> maxlength="256"
> size="256"
> style="<%=str%>"
> />
>
> The wierd part is that if I put
>
> style="<%=pageContext.findAttribute("styleVar").toString()%>"
>
> inside the <html:text> tag it wont work!!!
>
> Can anybody tell me why it is so?? I am stumped!
>
> thank you all...
> rahul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Max Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Rahul
> Mohan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 1:45 PM
> Subject: Re: <c:out> tag inside <html:text> tag
>
>
> > Two issues may be at work here:
> >
> > 1. It isn't valid to have a JSP tag render an attribute value for
> another
> > JSP tag. This might work instead, depending on the scope of styleVar:
> >
> > <html:text
> > name="Customer"
> > property ="Name"
> > maxlength="256"
> > size="256"
> > style="<%=styleVar%>"
> > />
> >
> > 2. Are you missing the <%@ taglib %> thingy for the html taglib in your
> JSP?
> >
> > -Max
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rahul Mohan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "struts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:47 PM
> > Subject: <c:out> tag inside <html:text> tag
> >
> >
> > Hi...I am facing some problems with using JSTL tags inside struts tags.
> >
> > This is the piece of code I wrote for my application:
> >
> > <html:text
> > name="Customer"
> > property ="Name"
> > maxlength="256"
> > size="256"
> > style="<c:out value="${styleVar}"/>"
> > />
> >
> > the problem is that it is getting traslated to
> >
> > <html:text
> > name="w_CustomerWin"
> > property ="wca_Name"
> > maxlength="256"
> > size="256"
> >
> style="width:100;height:22;position:absolute;top:20;left:56;display:none;"
> > />
> >
> > in the final html page!!
> >
> > can anybody please tell me why the <html:text> tag is not getting
> translated
> > to <input type="text .....> ?
> >
> > thank you..
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Rahul Mohan
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