Re: Question about Text boxes and JSP

[Galbreath, Mark]

Title: RE: [off topic] keep generated option in websphere

This is pretty basic stuff and only remotely concerns servlets.

 

The "%20" is the URL encoding for white space.  It's there in Cold Fusion and ASP, as well.  Put double quotes around your value clause like: value="<%= displayQueryText %>"

 

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Lance Prais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Question about Text boxes and JSP

I am not sure if this is the best place to ask this question but I hopefully someone has some knowledge about this. 

 

I am passing information via URL for example:

 

http://kb-dev/all/results.JSP?QueryText=Lockheed%20Martin&wordType=3&collection=securetrak

 

The code for the URL looks as follows:

http://kb-dev/all/results.jsp?QueryText=Lockheed Martin&wordType=3&collection=securetrak

 

If you notice it is adding "%20" between the  does anyone know why this is occurring.

 

 

I am converting the "QueryText" to a variable "DisplayText".  The problem is when I try to assign a value to a Textbox it does not display the entire value.

 

For example:  I am passing the phrase "Lockheed Martin"

 

I use the following code to assign a value to a Textbox:

<input type="text" name="QueryText" size="20" Value=<%=displayQueryText%> style="text-align: Left; width: 280" tabindex="1" maxlength="500">

 

 

And a test display to verify the value is being passed correctly:

 <tr><td><font color="#990000"><%=displayQueryText%></font></td></tr>

 

The output for the textbox is just Lockheed

 

While the test displays it correctly  Lockheed Martin

 

Does anyone know why this is?  I have never run into this when passing variable using Cold Fusion or ASP.

 

 

Thank you in advance

Lance