How to insert a SPACE in a JSP expression?

[Jen Yang]

Hi, all
I have the following string:
String testString = "aaa bbb";
if I do an
out.println(testString);
It works fine. I get "aaa bbb".
But if I put it into a JSP expression like:
<input name="test" type="text" value=<%= testString %>>
then only the part before the <SPACE> ("aaa") will be shown in my text field.
How do I insert a <SPACE> into a JSP expression? Thanks.

[Vijay S. Rathore]

Hi Jen,

Change this statement :
<input name="test" type="text" value=<%= testString %>>
to:
<input name="test" type="text" value="<%= testString %>">
in your code.
You are missing " " in the value attribute as it contains a space.
[ July 29, 2003: Message edited by: Vijay Singh Rathore ]

[Jen Yang]

Thanks Vijay, works!

[Bear Bibeault]

Bear in mind that this has nothing to do with the JSP expression, but with your lack of putting quotes around the attribute value. If you hard-coded the string with spaces into the HTML without the quotes you would observe the same behavior.
Lesson: always quote your HTML attributes as if you were writing xhtml.
hth,
bear