I don't think there is any way to get both label and text from select box in request option. You will get only the value specified in <option> tag. I believe in ur case, ID is the value in <option> tag and that's the reason u get Id back in action during postback...
There is couple of workaround's to overcome this. I think this is how ur <select> tag will look like now <Select name="cmbNames"> <Option value="1">John</Option> <Option value="2">Mark</Option> <Option value="3">Carrie</Option> </Select> So when you call request.getParameter("cmbNames"), you will get the id of the selected name. If John is selected, it will be 1. Workaround: Option 1: With this Id value "1", you can call a helper class/method to retrive the name. This is the correct approach in most of the cases. Option 2: While building the data in combo box itself build a parameter which hold both Id & Name with some separator like | or ^. For ex, this is how you should build ur List, ArrayList < LabelValueBean > list = new ArrayList< LabelValueBean >(5); list.add(new LabelValueBean("1|John","John")); list.add(new LabelValueBean("2|Mark","Mark")); list.add(new LabelValueBean("3|Carrie","Carrie")); Now, label value bean contains both id & name in one property itself, set that to <option> tag's value. So, your new select tag would be like this <Select name="cmbNames"> <Option value="1|John">John</Option> <Option value="2|Mark">Mark</Option> <Option value="3|Carrie">Carrie</Option> </Select> Now, when you call request.getParameter("cmbNames") on post back, you will get the value of the selected name. If John is selected, it will be "1|John", split that content u will get both id and name of selected option. This is crooked but works fine for small apps. Hope this helps you. ~Muthu -----Original Message----- From: kunla [mailto:manish.mnit1...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:45 AM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: creating list in dropdown using struts creating list in dropdown using struts : In action class list.add(new LabelValueBean("ID","Name")); In Jsp <logic:present name="list" scope="session"> <td align="left">* Select Item</td> <td> <html:select property="selectedItem"> <html:option value="-1">Select</html:option> <html:options collection="list" property="label" labelProperty="value" /> </html:select> </td> </tr> <tr></tr> </logic:present> In Form : getter and setter for selectedItem. query : Now I want to retrieve ID and Name both in action class.I am able to retrieve ID,But i want to retrieve both. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/creating-list-in-dropdown-using-struts-tp23130937p2313 0937.html Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org