Have you tried to use & for &? just a thought. Kathy
-----Original Message----- From: Srinivas Rao [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:07 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: How can i avoid the use of & in a drop down box ? Hi John, It is possible but i am not sure it is working or not .... before inset into the database we will use Single quate( ' ' ) to store the data, after u can access '&' symble from the database.. bye Srinivas John Antonakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have some drop down boxes in our jsp's which take data straight from the DB. Some of those data contain the character &. (eg John & me). We use a javascript array to store these data for internal use in the page. The struts format those data. When we use these data in a drop down (html select) appears as (John & me) which obviously does not look good. Is there a way to avoid this from happening ? Can we say to the struts NOT to format the data coming from the java objects ? John Antonakos Software Engineer Information Systems Department MedNet International Ltd www.mni.gr Tel. (+30) 210 6232085 Fax (+30) 210 6232026 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]