Button click to access Servlet

[Cimi Jared]

Hello,

I am trying to create a graphical button to call a servlet and pass parameters to this servlet. Can someone give me an example to do this? I was able to create a link and pass two parameters, but have not been successful creating a button to do the same.

I am very new to JSP/Servlet programming, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you..
[ October 19, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Bear Bibeault]

"mountaingirl2008", please check your private messages for an important administrative matter.

[Bear Bibeault]

This is an HTML and JavaScript question, so it has moved accordingly.

[Bear Bibeault]

You can either do this entirely with HTML by creating a form with the servlet as its action and the button as the form's submit button, or you can create a non-submit button and use JavaScript to invoked the servlet in the button's onclick handler.
[ October 19, 2008: Message edited by: Eric Pascarello ]

[Bear Bibeault]

From your other post:

<FORM METHOD="GET" ACTION="dynamic/Servlet?parm1=something&parm2=something">
<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" NAME="RESET" VALUE="RESET SOMETHING"/>
</FORM>
    

Firstly, don't use all uppercase for your html -- it's very old-fashioned to do so and makes the code hard to read. Use lowercase.

Secondly, your button should be of type "submit" to act as a submit button.

And thirdly, your action URL is not valid. It should be context-relative, not page relative. See the JSP FAQ for more information.