Radio button not being submitted

[Brian Quinn]

I have a JSP that uses an Action Form and an Action class. On the JSP is 2 html:radio buttons. The property is defined in the form, and the getter is hit in debug on submit, but always return null. They should pass a Y or N. However, they always pass null, no matter which one I select. Is there a step I'm missing ?

[Purushoth Thambu]

You probably give us more info like your action-form name, form class members and the jsp snippet. Above all why would you see getter method being called on form submit?.

[Merrill Higginson]

One of the idiosyncrasies of HTML is that radio buttons only submit a value if they are checked. If they are not checked, no value is submitted to the server, and consequently, the setter method is not called.

The workaround is to put code in the reset() method of your ActionForm to set the values to their non-checked state ("N" in your case). That way they will start out as "N" and be changed to "Y" if the button is checked.