I want to use the <html:form name="searchform" action=...> with the name attribute, so that I can post the form other than using the submit form using javascript e.g.
function sgenrePost(sgenreid){
document.forms['searchform'].sgenreid.value = sgenreid;
document.forms['searchform'].submit();
}Unfortunately, the jsp won't compile without a accompanying type attribute, which as I understand it, has to be set to the name of the form/action bean (I could be wrong about this).
This has the unfortunate side effect of overwriting/destroying/reinitialising the original form bean on the request page, so that the form properties do not get reset to the what they were set with when the form was submitted.
Has anyone had this problem before? Do I have to abandon the javascript posting, and just use url encoding?
Thanks, al
