As you have pointed out: JSP is server side.
Use JavaScript to do validation on client side.
dave.
Schechter Gary wrote:
> I'm a newbie with JSP so plz pardon the question:
>
> my users are used to having immediate notification if they enter something wrong
> in a field.
>
> For example, if a textfield is supposed to contain a number, i would like to
> either prevent them from entering an alphabetic char in the field in the first
> place, or give an error message immediately, without having them fill in the
> entire form and submitting the page to the server.
>
> i realize that jsp means server-side, but is there any way to do this with an
> html/jsp driven application ?
>
> thanx
> gary
>
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