How to set textbox value using actionform in Struts

Good day,

The following is my jsp code, I use this to create a datepicker text box :

<head>
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="scripts/jquery-ui.css" />
     <script src="scripts/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
    <script src="scripts/jquery-ui.js"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript"> 

     $(function(){ 
        //$( "#datepicker" ).datepicker();
        $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker({
        showOn: "button",
        buttonImage: "images/icon_calendar.gif",
        buttonImageOnly: true
            });
        });
    </script>   
</head>

//some code here
<td class="value"><html:text property="campaignurl" size="50" maxlength="1000" /></td>

<td width="40%">
    <input type="text" id="datepicker" name="periodFrom" />
</td>

The following is my action.java code (code behind) :

System.out.println(thisForm.getPeriodFrom()); //this is working fine
thisForm.setCampaignurl("this is url"); // this is working fine, brower display "this is url" in textbox campaignurl
thisForm.setPeriodFrom("09/05/2013"); // this display blank in browser.

Because I want to user JavaScript/Jquery to create the datepicker, thus I change the textbox into <input/> instead of <html:text />.

However, I can set value for <html:text /> which is the campaignurl easily, but I cant set value for the <input/> textbox which is periodForm .

Suppose this is simple to done, however I cant find solution after I spending long time on it.

Kindly advise.

Solution

With struts-bean.tld:

<input type="text" 
       id="datepicker" 
       name="periodFrom" 
       value="<bean:write name="yourForm" property="periodFrom"/>" />

See more in Package org.apache.struts.taglib.bean

With JSTL:

<input type="text" 
       id="datepicker" 
       name="periodFrom" 
       value="<c:out value="${yourForm.periodFrom}"/>" />

See more in JSTL Core <c:out> Tag