not display the button in jSP

Question

I want to hide and show the table row based on a condition. The id of my atable row is showhide2.

This is my part of code to use show/hide the row

<%if(group.equals("Y")){%>
                         <input<% try{if(dTO.getStat() == 0){%> style="display:none;" <%}}catch(Exception ex){} %> type="button" value="View" id="btnview" name="btnview"   onclick="statusChange('view', 'add_userFrm');hide_menu('showhide2');loadDataForGivenDiv('add_userFrm');" class="button" style="width:100px"/>
                        <%}else{ %><input<% try{if(dTO.getStat() == 0){%> style="display:none;" <%}}catch(Exception ex){} %> type="button" value="View" id="btnview" name="btnview" onclick="statusChange('view', 'add_userFrm');show_menu('showhide2');loadDataForGivenDiv('add_userFrm');" class="button" style="width:100px"/>
                         <%}%>

But the button "View" not shows in my application.I cant solve this.

This is the function used to hide the row

function hide_menu(id){
                            document.getElementById(id).style.display = "none";
                            document.getElementById(id).style.width = "0";

                        }

I guess problem is in my code which has the button "View"

Answer 1

In both if and else you set display to none, could that be it?

Answer 2

You could try adding any character in front of the input tag

e.g.

<%if(group.equals("Y")){%>
                     a<input<% try{if(dTO.getStat() == 0){%> style="display:none;"      <%}}catch(Exception ex){} %> type="button" value="View" id="btnview" name="btnview"   onclick="statusChange('view', 'add_userFrm');hide_menu('showhide2');loadDataForGivenDiv('add_userFrm');" class="button" style="width:100px"/>

If the 'a' does not show then

if(group.equals("Y")) 

is probably always false