Re: Posting a variable in a Struts html:option tag.

Stephen,

I have run into this with the option tag for a default value and ended

up using an HTML option tag. My page looked something like:

<html:select...
  <option value="">&nbsp; &nbsp; ...</option>
  <html:options name="businessRulesBean" property="recentList"/>
</html:select>

I can't recall what was wrong with using the html:option tag in this 
case, but I am certain I tried it and it would not work. It is possible
that 
it does a skip on the body although a quick look at the code says that

shouldn't have been the case.

David Morris

>>> Gibson.Stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 04/28/03 07:29AM >>>
Greetings,
 
I have issue I would like to see if anyone has run into.  I am using
Struts
1.1b3 and  I am trying to load an array list as an html:select.  I also
want
to default a value based on the user sign -in.
 
When I execute this code, 
 
<bean:define id="claimSysID" name="culb" property="claimSystemID"
type="java.lang.String"/>

<bean:define id="claimName" name="culb" property="name"
type="java.lang.String"/> 

<html:select property="coordinator" size="1">

    <html:option value="<%= claimSysID %>">

        <%= claimName %>

    </html:option>

    <html:options collection="claimsCoordinatorList" 

        property="coordinatorID"

        labelProperty="coordinatorName" />

</html:select>

 
 The user name  <%= claimName %> is displayed correctly but I get the
literal value  <%= claimSysID %>  back as the selected option.  How do
i
display a variable in the html:option  value  attribute?  If I select
a
value from the list (from the html:options portion) everything works
as
expected.  culb is the bean in the session that has the name and ID of
the
logged in user.
 
Thanks,

Stephen Gibson