title: El Expressions no longer working
body: <p>I'm working on something for class, and I was just playing around with scroll-bars for my table.  All the sudden my EL expressions stopped working. I did not touch my controller classes at all. I have tested the methods in my models and controller. Everything seems to be in working order. Which means its a tag somewhere or something like that. However I've been all over this and cannot find it. I am super new with EL expressions so its possible I'm missing something obvious. Any help would be greatly appreciated. </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%-- 
  Document   : Index
  Created on : Feb 8, 2016, 12:43:30 PM
  Author     : andre_000
  --%&gt;
  
  &lt;%@page import="java.util.List"%&gt;
  &lt;%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%&gt;
  &lt;%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %&gt;
  &lt;%@taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %&gt;
  &lt;%@taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %&gt;
  &lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;Book Inventory&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;link rel="stylesheet"
            href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css"&gt;
      &lt;script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.0/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-static-top"&gt;
          &lt;div class="container"&gt;
              &lt;div class="navbar-header"&gt;
                  &lt;a href="#" class="navbar-brand"&gt;Author Inventory&lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapse-menu"&gt;
                      &lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Toggle Navigation&lt;/span&gt;
                      &lt;span class="icon-bar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
                      &lt;span class="icon-bar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
                      &lt;span class="icon-bar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
                  &lt;/button&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
              &lt;div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="collapse-menu"&gt;
                  &lt;ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right"&gt;
                      &lt;li class="active"&gt;&lt;a href="index.html"&gt;Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;/ul&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/nav&gt;
      &lt;div class="container"&gt;
          &lt;div class="row"&gt;
              &lt;div class="col-md-8"&gt;
                  &lt;h1&gt;Author Inventory&lt;/h1&gt;
  
                  &lt;table class="table table-hover active"&gt;
                      &lt;thead&gt;
                          &lt;tr&gt;
                              &lt;th&gt;ID&lt;/th&gt;
                              &lt;th&gt;Author Name&lt;/th&gt;
                              &lt;th&gt;Date Added&lt;/th&gt;
                          &lt;/tr&gt;
                      &lt;/thead&gt;
  
  
                      &lt;tbody&gt;
  
                          &lt;c:forEach var="author" items="${authorList}"&gt;
                              &lt;tr&gt;
                                  &lt;td id=${author.authorId}&gt;
                                      &lt;c:out value="${author.authorId}" /&gt;
                                  &lt;/td&gt;
                                  &lt;td class="authorname" id="&lt;c:out value="${author.authorName}"/&gt;" &gt;
                                      &lt;c:out value="${author.authorName}"/&gt;
                                  &lt;/td&gt;
                                  &lt;td id=${author.dateAdded}&gt;
  
                                      &lt;c:out value="${author.dateAdded}"/&gt;
                                  &lt;/td&gt;
                              &lt;/tr&gt;
                          &lt;/c:forEach&gt;  
                      &lt;/tbody&gt;
  
                  &lt;/table&gt;
                  &lt;h1&gt;${errorMsg}&lt;/h1&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  
      &lt;nav class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-bottom"&gt;
  
          &lt;div class="container"&gt;
              &lt;div class="container"&gt;
                  &lt;div class="row"&gt;
                      &lt;div id="add" class="col-md-8"&gt;
  
  
                          &lt;form method="POST" action="AuthorController"&gt;
                              &lt;h2 class="toolbar" &gt;Add a new Author&lt;/h2&gt;
                              &lt;label&gt;Enter Name&lt;/label&gt;
                              &lt;input type="text" name="name" value=""/&gt;
                              &lt;input type="hidden" name="action" value="add" /&gt;
                              &lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="add" /&gt;
                          &lt;/form&gt;
  
                      &lt;/div&gt;
                      &lt;div id="editDelete" class="col-md-8"&gt;
  
                          &lt;form method="POST" action="AreaCalculator" name="Triangle" id="triangle" class="calcBox"&gt;
                              &lt;h2&gt;Edit or Delete?&lt;/h2&gt;
                              &lt;label&gt;Name:&lt;/label&gt;
                              &lt;input id="name" type="text" name="height" value=""/&gt;
                              &lt;br&gt;
                              &lt;label&gt;Date Added:&lt;/label&gt;
                              &lt;input id="date" type="text" name="base" value=""/&gt;
                              &lt;br&gt;
                              &lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"/&gt;
                              &lt;input type="hidden" name="shapeID" value="TRIANGLE" /&gt;
                          &lt;/form&gt;
                      &lt;/div&gt;
  
                      &lt;div class="col-md-4"&gt;
                          &lt;form method="POST" action="AreaCalculator" name="Circle" id="circle" class="calcBox"&gt;
                              &lt;h2&gt;Circle Calculator&lt;/h2&gt;
                              &lt;label&gt;Enter Radius&lt;/label&gt;
                              &lt;input type="text" name="radius" value=""/&gt;
                              &lt;br&gt;
                              &lt;br&gt;
                              &lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"/&gt;
                              &lt;input type="hidden" name="shapeID" value="CIRCLE" /&gt;
                          &lt;/form&gt;
                      &lt;/div&gt;
                  &lt;/div&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
              &lt;p class="navbar-text"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;copy; 2016 Andrew Wintermyer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  
          &lt;/div&gt;
  
      &lt;/nav&gt;
  
      &lt;script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
      &lt;script&gt;
          $(document).ready(function () {
              var name;
              $('#editDelete').hide();
  
               $('.authorname').click(function () {
                      name = $(this).attr('id'); 
                  });
  
              $('.table &gt; tbody &gt; tr').click(function () {
  
  
                  $('#editDelete').show();
                  $('#add').hide();
                  $('#name').val(name);
                  $('#date').val("Today");
              });
          });
  
      &lt;/script&gt;
  
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>I even reverted my project to an earlier working github commit and nothing. </p>