C:forEach tag giving bad times

Question

hi there,
i have 4 combo boxes, each one depending on the next one.
The first is COUNTRY once you've selected the country, STATE will be populated, then COUNTY and then CITY.
all the informations must be retrieved querying a database.
i'm having hard times with this but i'm trying to do it in the most easily way i can find.
actually i am able to populate the country box and this works fine, then i'm trying to trigger an onChange event on the country box to pass the value of the selected option to a javascript that will take care of the next step.
here is the code:
JSP page
<select name="nazione" onChange="javascript:pescaRegioni(this.value)">
     <option value=""> -- Nazione --
     <c:forEach items="${requestScope.nazioni}" var="country">
     <option value="<c:out value='country'/>"> <c:out value='${country}'/>
     </c:forEach>
     </select>
JAVASCRIPT
function pescaRegioni(country)
     alert(country);
     location.href="PopulateBoxes?nazione="+country+"&regione=&azione=inserisci";
}i put the alert in the javascript just to check the value of country and whether i check France or Italy or whatever the value i get is "country".
i know this is because the var country defined in the for each tag is invisible outside the tag.
i also tryed this.[this.selectedIndex].value but it's obvious that is the same thing of this.value and that it won't solve the nested visibility problem at all any way.
moreover even if a c:out could help (it won't), i cannot put it in the onChange event because i'm using a javascript there.
please help!!
thanks in advance

Answer 1

double post http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4063433
ram.