Can ot read values from JSP iun JavaScript

[nirjari patel]

Following is Javascriptfragment

	var hasLocale = "<%= alternateLocaleDCR %>";
	alert("hello after hasLocale variable");
	alert("hi " +hasLocale);
	if(hasLocale == "no")

Below is JSP fragment setting this value

.......
String alternateLocaleDCR = "yes"; 
String hasDCRPath;
......
......
<form method="post" id="dualPreviewForm" action="/iw-cc/testVpath">
	<input type="hidden" name="vpath" id="path" value="${param['vpath']}" /> -->
	<input type="hidden" name="xslpath" id="xpath" value="<%=request.getParameter("xslpath")%>" />
	<input type="hidden" name="vpath" id="path" value="<%=request.getParameter("vpath")%>" />
	<input type="hidden" name="alternateDCR" id="localeDCR" value="<%=request.getParameter("alternateLocaleDCR")%>" /> 
</form>..........

When I am running this code, in the alert I am getting alert messsage as
hi <%= alternateLocaleDCR %>

Why is expression not getting evaluated in this JS code ? Why am I not getting value of hasLocale variable set as "yes" ?
Please let me know, whats wrong here ?

Thanks

[Stefan Evans]

What's wrong here?

Apart from your use of scriptlets?

Remember the order that things run in.

Java/JSP runs, and produces an HTML page.
Javascript starts running when the HTML page reaches your browser.

I would suggest you do a view source on this page to take a look at what the JSP has generated for the javascript to execute.

Where does the javascript fragment get evaluated in relation to the JSP fragment?

The outcome you are seeing seems to indicate that the JSP interpreter is not run on your javascript fragment. Is that javascript fragment in a JSP file or something else?