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Issue with POST and Forms

 
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I have this code:

html file


then inside of doGet for my servlet i have this:




The output is always null...
what the heck am i doing wrong? I want it to say light if the user chose light, dark if they pick dark etc ...

what little thing am i forgetting?
 
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Did you mean inside of doPost?
 
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Kenny,
Your method attributes indicates the HTTP request is of type POST.
You should write the above logic in doPost() but not in doGet().
The default http request is GET.
 
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