Help me with Struts HTML tags

Saathvik Reddy

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posted 19 years ago

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Hi Ranchers,

I have this chunk of code in my JSP:

<html

ption value = "<%=qvalue.getOid()%>" <%=str%>>
<bean:write name = "qvalue" property = "value" />
</html

ption>

<%=str%> returns selected="selected" or null depending on some logic so that the option gets selected if the condition is true.
but,if i include <%=str%> it throws me exception:
Unterminated <html

ption tag. If i remove and simply write
<html

ption value = "<%=qvalue.getOid()%>" > it works fine.
How to get value selected while displaying page using html

ption tags

Thanks,

Merrill Higginson

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posted 19 years ago

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If you use a combination of <html:select> and <html:option> tags, Struts automatically selects the correct option based on the value of the form bean property you specified in the <html:select> tag.

If you want to take over this logic yourself, I'd suggest using plain html (<select> and <option>) tags, rather than struts tags.
[ March 08, 2006: Message edited by: Merrill Higginson ]

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Brent Sterling

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In general the selected item is determined by the enclosing select tag. The following example calls the getLevel method on the form and option with the matching value is selected:

I am not sure how this translates into your requirements. You can also specify the html:select tag to allow multiple selections, in which case the form property would return an array of values.

- Brent

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