try to use html-el tag
<html-el:textarea property="comments" rows="4" cols="50"
value="${sessionScope.requestDTO.comments}"/>
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From: "Matt E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:23 AM
Subject: Writing values from javabeans to html tags.
> Hello All!
>
> I'm trying to give an inital value to one of the
> fields in a form in an application of mine.
>
> I had tried this:
>
> <html:textarea property="comments" rows="4" cols="50"
> value="<%=requestDTO.getComments()%>"
>
> Since I had read that you couldn't use bean:write tag
> in the value attribute of the html tags. However this
> gives me an error in tomcat:
>
> org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile
> /int0/opt/tomcat/b331/work/DEFAULT/tir/pla/ReviewRequest_3.java:899:
> Undefined variable or class name: requestDTO
>
> _jspx_th_html_textarea_0.setValue(requestDTO.getComments());
>
> The bean in question (requestDTO) is session scoped.
> I can use <bean:write> to write out the value, so I
> know it's there.
>
> What do I need to do so that
> <%=requestDTO.getComments()%> works also?
>
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