If you want to stick to the generally accepted Struts best-practices, you will never link directly to a JSP, only to an Action - which could then populate your form bean before forwarding to the JSP and the JSP tag would automagically have the right value.
-- Voytek Jarnot Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Hytail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 1:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: newbie: Variable Data in HTML Tags > > > > I have started playing with Struts and have some simple > things working well. I have looked around but can't answer > the following. > > Say I have this in my JSP: > > <html:text property="name" value="SAM" /> > > Then the field "name" will have a default value of "SAM". > But what if I want "SAM" to be variable based on a parameter > passed in on the request? I can't seem to figure out how to > do this seemingly simple thing. > > Say I use URL: > > http://localhost:8080/web/JSP/depositMail.jsp?name="BOB"; > > and I want "BOB" then to show up as the default value. How > do I code the html tag? > > I am sure this is simple and will greatly appreciate the push > in the right direction. > > Larry Hytail > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
