I was able to get it to work with:
<body onload="displayMessage('<h:outputText
value="#{mainMenu.alertMessage}"/>')">
This evaluated correctly and gave me an alert window with the message.
<body onload="displayMessage('#{mainMenu.alertMessage}')">
This gave me an alert window with the literal message
#{mainMenu.alertMessage}
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Kitching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:53 PM
> To: MyFaces Discussion
> Subject: Re: JavaScript alert() window
>
>
> Warren Bell wrote:
> > I want to create a JavaScript alert window with a message from
> a resource
> > bundle when I have a message to display. Getting the message is
> no problem,
> > but getting it into the JavaScript is.
> >
> > <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
> > function displayMessage()
> > {
> > var message = "MESSAGE HERE";
> > if(message == "")
> > {
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > alert(message);
> > }
> > }
> > </script>
> >
> > <body onload="displayMessage()">
> >
> >
> > I want to replace "MESSAGE HERE" with #{mainMenu.alertMessage}.
> > #{mainMenu.alertMessage} would be an empty string or have a
> message. I am
> > getting var message = "#{mainMenu.alertMessage}" instead of the value of
> > #{mainMenu.alertMessage}.
> >
> > Is there a way using MyFaces to achieve this?
>
> I think in the next release of JSP this will be possible (EL expressions
> evaluated in the body of the JSP page). However that's no consolation
> for you now :-) [and I might be wrong anyhow...]
>
> Right now, the only place an EL expression #{..} is evaluated is in the
> attribute of a JSF tag, so your approach above won't work.
>
> You might be able to do something like this:
> <t:div style="display:none" id="mymessage" forceid="true">
> <h:outputText value="#{...}"/>
> </t:div>
> to force some text to be output in a named div, but not visible to the
> user. Then in your javascript you could do:
> var message = document.getElementById("mymessage").innerHtml();
> alert(message);
>
> The alternative would be to write a component that can emit arbitrary
> text as a script variable, eg
> <t:var name="message" value="#{...}"/>
> which generates something like:
> <script>var message="..."</script>
>
> There's the t:stylesheet tag which is sort of in this spirit.
>
> Note that writing a custom JSP component is sadly much more complicated
> than it should be :-(
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
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