[thelist] JSP question

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 21 08:07:07 CDT 2003


Hi folks,

Haven't seen much JSP stuff fly around here but I'll give it a go. I
have a fairly simple situation. I have an include that includes some
DIVs that are conditional. I want to show one DIV based on some set
variable.

In php I would probably set some variable on the page I wanted the
DIV to show at the top like so:

$showDiv = 1; // turn the div on

then I would check for it in my include:

if(isset($showDiv))...etc

I can't do this type of thing in JSP though, because it's compiled. I
end up getting a cannot resolve symbol error. Here is what I had
tried in JSP:

<% String orderInfo = "1"; %>
// below is the page with the conditional DIV indside..
<jsp:include page="includes/dashboards.jsp"/>

inside the "dashboards.jsp" page I tried this:

<% if(orderInfo.equals("1"))...show DIV %> (psuedo)

Which does not work. Can anyone shed light on the correct way to
handle this? I'm a bit of a JSP neo - I only know the basics.

Thanks

Tom

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