Internationalization messages in HTML tags

Does anyone know how to pull a message out of the messages.properties file and use it as the value in a button?

For example,

messages.properties would look like:

label.search=Search

on the jsp I want:

<input type="button" value="<spring:message code="label.search"/>">

I want the button to say Search, but of course it doesn't, it says what I put in those quotes. Thoughts?

Thanks!

Are you sure you've put the spring taglib directive at the top of your JSP? Are other <spring:xxx> tags working?

Yeah, I'm using the <spring:message> tag all over the page and they are showing up correctly. It's just when I put it inside an HTML tag like I showed that it doesn't work.

All I can think of is to try the equivalent jstl tag: <fmt:message ... >. It's the same as <spring:message> as far as I know. I use that regularly in the exact scenario you are talking about and it's never been a problem.

Sorry I don't have any better advice :cry:

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Originally Posted by Rexxe

<input type="button" value="<spring:message code="label.search"/>">

I want the button to say Search, but of course it doesn't, it says what I put in those quotes. Thoughts?

Thanks!

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Try
<input type="button" value='<spring:message code="label.search"/>'>

If you have EL, this works too... more verbose imho:

Code:

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<spring&#58;message code="my.button" var="tmpMyButton"/>
<input type="button" value"$&#123;tmpMyButton&#125;">

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