OK, I get what you are saying. I can then process the request object in the form class and populate the value there. Since forms will generally also do validation, do you generally pass some type of variable in the request telling the form DO NOT VALIDATE on an intial request? Thanks, Larry Hytail Jarnot Voytek Contr AU HQ/SC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: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: > > > > 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] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day
