Problem with c:forEach tag

[Mahalingaiah HR]

I wrote like this..
< html:select property="frame">
< c:forEach var="frame" items="${frame_list}">
< html ption value="${frame.id}"
< c ut value="${frame.frameName}" />
</ html ption>
</ c:forEach>
</ html:select>

But value is coming as ${frame.id} instead of actual value..

Any one help me?

Thanks in advance.

[Tarun Yadav]

Check that your deployment descriptor declares a servlet specification of 2.4 and not 2.3. EL is disabled with version 2.3 by default.

Also, which container are you using? Before Tomcat 5.x (JSP 2.0), EL was not (required to be) supported by the container itself but was usually found in tags like <c ut>.

EDIT: 1. Take a look at the JSP FAQs, it explains what I said in detail : http://faq.javaranch.com/java/ElOrJstlNotWorkingAsExpected

2. You've posted in the wrong forum, this isn't a servlet question, it's about JSPs/ JSTL. You should've posted it here.
[ September 28, 2007: Message edited by: Tarun Yadav ]

[Bear Bibeault]

"Mahalingaiah HR", please check your private messages for an important message from me.

Also, please take the time to choose the correct forum for your posts. This forum is for questions on servlets.

This post has been moved to a more appropriate forum.

[Merrill Higginson]

In Struts, you can avoid a lot of JSP code by learning to use the Struts custom tags. The html:optionsCollection tag would be very useful in this situation. Example:

<html:select property="frame" >
  <html:optionsCollection name="frame_list" value="id" label="frameName" />
</html:select>

[ September 28, 2007: Message edited by: Merrill Higginson ]

[Michael Ku]

Merrill, I always prefer to use the JSTL tags if possible before using the Struts tags. Is there an equivalent JSTL tag or JSTL way of doing this?

Thanks

[Merrill Higginson]

Like you, I prefer to to use JSTL tags over Struts tags when they are equivalent and both do essentially the same job. However, in this case, there is no JSTL solution that can do the job as well as the Struts tags. Your only option with JSTL is by looping through the list similar to the code in the first post in this thread.

[Michael Ku]

Thanks