hi friends, it really worked. thank you so much especially Jurn Ho and Yves Sy.
regards, Viji George Information Systems, The Arvind Mills Ltd., Naroda, Ahmedabad. Phone-(079)22203030 Ext -2352 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jurn Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 10:54 AM Subject: Re: code snippet for <html:optionCollection> > Hi Viji, > > I was just playing with that today. Here's my code snippets that should > help you. > > From inside my extended Action class > > ...execute(...) { > List businesses = getUserService().getBusinesses(); // go lookup > database and list all the businesses. > request.setAttribute("businesses", businesses); // save it in the > request so the jsp can access it later. > return mapping.findForward("Success"); > } > > the List named 'businesses' is actually an ArrayList of BusinessView, which > is a javabean with the following interesting fields > 1. long id > 2. String name; > > and then, from inside my jsp > <tr> > <td>Business owner</td> > <td> > <html:select property="owner"> > <html:optionsCollection name="businesses" > label="name" > value="id"/> > </html:select> > </td> > </tr> > > checkout http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/struts-html.html#select > and http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/struts-html.html#optionsCollection > for more info. > > Does combobox mean you can select mutliple entries? if so you can probably > add multiple="true" attribute to the <html:select> element. > > cya, > Jurn > > At 02:37 PM 3/09/2004, viji.george wrote: > >can anybody send me a code sample for using <html:optionCollection> for > >getting the value from the ArrayList and populating the combo box. > > > >I am storing the values retrieved from the DB in a arraylist in the form > >of a class which has 2 attributes one for option value and the other for > >text of the option. > > > >I want to put these values into the combo box. > >has anybody done this? > > > > > >Viji George > >Information Systems, > >The Arvind Mills Ltd., > >Naroda, Ahmedabad. > >Phone-(079)22203030 > >Ext -2352 > ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[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]