Question

What would you consider a better practice?

Would you do (in javascript):

var aaa = <s:property value="myValue"/>;

or rather (in a jsp file):

<s:hidden  name="myValue" id="myValue" />

with (in javascript):

var bbb = document.getElementById("myValue").value;

Answer 1

You can achieve the desired results with both way.only thing matters is individual taste and preferences.

i would not like to mix up the things and will go with the second way using a hidden field.for me it serve 2 purposes.

1. separating my struts2 tag from the JavaScript.
2. More over i can write a simple clean JavaScript code with standard JavaScript method rather mixing up the things