I am using following button tag to display button by passing some runtime value to "value" attribute: <html:button styleClass="button50" value="<%=no_list %>" onclick="callOneFunction(this);" /> it is not throwing an jasper exception saying, setValue(String) cannot work with html:button. Please help me out ot resolve my problem, I want to pass some value at runtime to vale attribute. How to do it ? Thanks in advance.