comboBox works on JSP page but its empty

[Peter Primrose]

Guys,

I'm preparing a combobox with the following below.

  
ServletContext sc;
.
.
arg0.getServletContext();
.
.
 
ArrayList categories = new ArrayList();
categories.add("a");
categories.add("b");
categories.add("c");
categories.add("d");
categories.add("e");
categories.add("f");
categories.add("g");
categories.add("h");
categories.add("i");
sc.setAttribute("categories",categories);
  

Later I am calling the arrayList, categories, from my JSP page (it's a struts application) and it looks like this:

   
<html:select property="title">
<html:options property="categories" />
</html:select>
<html:errors property="title" />
 

the user can see the drop down box on the page but for some reason, and this is where my question kicks in, the comboBox is empty?!?! why?

thanks.

* the arrayList is prepare before the jsp page (startupManager)
[ September 30, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Bear Bibeault]

Since your question concerns Struts tags, this has been moved to the Struts forum.

And (a pet peeve of mine) it's not a "combobox" -- that's a completely different type of control that is not available in HTML.