Highlight hyperlink inside JSTL?

Question

Hi,
I am having problems highlighting a hyperlink (onclick) which is placed inside the JSTL tags.
Could someone help me to achieve this inside the JSTL tags.
here is my code:
<c:choose>
         <c:when test="${!e.restricted}">
               <a href="#" class="folderLink" onclick="this.parentNode.parentNode.style.color='blue'; viewDocument('<c:out value="${e.documentId}"/>'<c:out value="${e.documentType}"/></a>
         </c:when>
         <c:otherwise>
              <c:out value="${e.documentType}"/>
         </c:otherwise>
  </c:choose>
.css
.folderLink:visited{color:blue;text-decoration:underline};
{code}
I need to highlight the link after clicking on the link.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Answer 1

Well, since it appears noone else has any ideas, here are some suggestions:
I think the hyperlink tag needs to have either a name or id attribute so you can reference it in javascript.
Example: id="myHyperLink"
Assume the link is in a form tag named myFormTag.
Then in your javascirpt, you reference the hyperlink via document.myFormTag.myHyperLink
From there, you somehow change the color of it via style.
If you still have problems, open the JSP page in a browser and click the menu item to view the source code.
That way, you can see what code the JSTL generated on the client-side.