Thank you Niall. This has helped me solve my issue. I was not aware of the <html:optionsCollection tag. Thank you very much. I am new this whole struts world.
You have helped me learn something new. Thank you, Sandhya -----Original Message----- From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 1:41 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: <html:option> and <c:out> tags I think you're making this more difficult than it needs to be. You want to use a Select to set a property in your ActioForm, so in the ActionForm you have something like this... protected String productId; protected List products; public void setProductId(String productId) { this.productId = productId; } public String getProductId() { return productId; } public List getProducts() { return products; } The List of products contains "Product" beans with "id" and "name" properties and the appropriate getters/setters. Then in your jsp... <html:select name="myProductForm" property="productId"> <html:optionsCollection name="myProductForm" property="products" label="name" value="id"/> </html:select> The <html:optionsCollection> will retrieve the Collection using the name/property attributes and iterate through it rendering options for each bean using the label/value attributes. If any of the "ids" match the value retrieved by the <Select> tag using its name/property then it will set that option to "selected". HTH Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "PADALA, SANDHYA (SBCSI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:22 PM Subject: <html:option> and <c:out> tags Hello , I have a question on how to use <C:out> tag as the value to the value attribute of <html:option> tag On my JSP <html:select property="optionList"> <c:forEach items="${TaskForm.optionList}" var="optionList"> <html:option value="<c:out value=${optionList.optionID}/>"><c:out value="${optionList.optionName}"/></html:option> </c:forEach> </html:select> When I run this JSp and do a view source I get the following code <select name="actionList"><option value="<c:out value=${optionList.optionID}/>">abc</option> <option value="<c:out value=${optionList.optionID}/>">xyz</option> <option value="<c:out value=${optionList.optionID}/>">pqr</option></select> Can anyone of you tell me how can I get the c:out get evaluated and the value to be stored in the value attribute of option tag. Thanks in advance. Sandhya --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
