The sortField looks like a property of your html:form. Thus it exists in the form bean, not in scope by itself. So to use c:out, you would need to do this:
<c:out value="${formbeanname.sortField}"/> Hope this helps, Peter -- Peter Smith Software Engineer InfoNow Corporation > From: "Yansheng Lin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Tag Libraries Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:42:41 -0600 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How come <c:out> didn't regonize variable? > > > I have a simple <c:out> statement in my jsp file: > > <html:hidden property="sortField"/> > <c:out value="${sortField}" default="nothing"/> > > The output source is: > > <input type="hidden" name="sortField" value="service_provider"> > nothing > > As you can see, the struts tag <html:hidden> rendered the value, but <c:out> > didn't. I am new to JSTL, so I have no clue why this didn't work. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]