Problem in maintaining the selected value of dropdown list

[itgaurav198]

Hi,

i have one jsp in which i select a value from drop down and on change of this a servlet is called that accesses some values and return to the same jsp where these values get populated in another dropdown list . Now the problem is when the jsp loads again (after fetching the values in servlet) the selected value of dropdown is lost. How can i make it happen that when the page reloads thedrop down list show me the previous selected value and below that another values.

Thanks

[r035198x]

Hi,

i have one jsp in which i select a value from drop down and on change of this a servlet is called that accesses some values and return to the same jsp where these values get populated in another dropdown list . Now the problem is when the jsp loads again (after fetching the values in servlet) the selected value of dropdown is lost. How can i make it happen that when the page reloads thedrop down list show me the previous selected value and below that another values.

Thanks

You pass the previosly selected value back to the JSP and use a simple if condition

[CODE=java]<%
if(value.equals ("previousValue ")) {
%>
<OPTION value ="<%=value%> " selected><%=val ue%> [/CODE]

[itgaurav198]

You pass the previosly selected value back to the JSP and use a simple if condition

[CODE=java]<%
if(value.equals ("previousValue ")) {
%>
<OPTION value ="<%=value%> " selected><%=val ue%> [/CODE]

Hi,

Thanks for ur reply.

But in this case i will get duplicate items in same dropdown list i.e. One due to if condition and other due to static options.

[r035198x]

Hi,

Thanks for ur reply.

But in this case i will get duplicate items in same dropdown list i.e. One due to if condition and other due to static options.

You should use a loop to populate the other "static" options. Put them in an array and populate them from the array.

[itgaurav198]

Hi,

Thanks for your valuable suggestion. I think this will get solved now.

I want to ask one more thing.
Is it possible that we use

HttpSession session=request.getSession(true)
session.setAttribute("str",str);

and

request.setAttribute("str1",str1);

and then use RequestDispatch er and forward to pass the request in same servlet.

Thnax

[r035198x]

Hi,

Thanks for your valuable suggestion. I think this will get solved now.

I want to ask one more thing.
Is it possible that we use

HttpSession session=request.getSession(true)
session.setAttribute("str",str);

and

request.setAttribute("str1",str1);

and then use RequestDispatch er and forward to pass the request in same servlet.

Thnax

Should work but normally you want to use one and not both methods.
Use the session to store attributes that belong to a session and use request.setAttr ibute when you want to pass a value from a servlet to JSP. You'd then use requestDispatch er with include(request , response)

[abcxyzgoo]

session["value"]!=null
{
//bind ur code
}