Hi Bob,
Even so, the request that your making to your 'ajax servlet', the url depends on the value of the
first select box. Somthing like 'myajaxservlet?firstvalue=Australia'
are you building this url in javascript before making the request? thats the point at which you want
to encode it. If you are doing it this way, the servlet will be unable to handle the request as you
expected because it will take "United States" and "US Vargin Islands" as separate parameters rather
than a single one. Why? because '&' is used as the delimeter. If you use the javascript escape
function e.g javascript:escape('United States & US Vargin Islands'), your servlet will handle this
as a single parameter.
It doen't matter that your not using struts, ajax is independant of your servlet side code, it could
be written in asp if you are that way inclined ;-)
Gareth
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Actually no. I am modifying legacy jsp/servlet code and not using Struts.
What happens is, when the users selects a state from the dropdown, I make an
ajax call to my servlet that returns a list of values to be populated in the
dropdown. Does this help?
Gareth Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I take it your adding the value of your drop down to part of the query string that makes the
xmlhttprequest, something along the lines of:
'myajaxpage.do?value=' + document.myForm.myDropdown.value;
try using the javascript escape function:
'myajaxpage.do?value=' + escape( document.myForm.myDropdown.value );
regards,
Gareth
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Hi guys,
I know that this is not the AJAX list but I know people like Frank Z. et all
worked on it before. I am seeing problem with populating a dropdown using ajax
when the data contains ampersand.
For example:
My collection works when I have two values for the country field: 'United
States', 'Australia'
But, it doesn't work when I have values like: 'United States & US Vargin
Islands', 'Australia'
Can somebody please help.
Thanks,
Bob
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