problem with form reset

[Naveen Mishra]

Hi.

I've written a TLD for rendering dropdown in jsp page .
The tag takes Map with key / value in it for rendering the list.
optionally we can pass key / value to display as selected item.
here is the sample jsp code snipet :

    
<html:select property="countryList"  onchange="javascript:checkCountry();">
<% String country="";
country=(String)countryMap.get(countryId);
if( null != country && ! country.equals("") ){
%>
<util:list data="<%=countryMap%>" key="<%=countryId%>" value="<%=country%>"/>
<%} else { %>
<util:list data="<%=countryMap%>" />
<% } %>

</html:select>

the first one renders dropdown with some data selected and the other without selection.

The problem is, when I reset my form , the dropdown is with no selection , regardless of it contained some data initially or not.
I wanted to retain the data in case it was there .

here is the code for tld ..

    
public int doEndTag() throws JspTagException
{
try{

Collection values= data.values();
String [] valuesArray = (String [] )values.toArray(new String[values.size()]);
 
Arrays.sort(valuesArray);

pageContext.getOut().write("<option value=\"\"  selected >Select</option>");
for(int i=0; i<valuesArray.length;i++){
Set entrySet = data.entrySet();
Iterator itr = entrySet.iterator();
while(itr.hasNext()){
 Map.Entry entryObj =( Map.Entry)itr.next();
 String key =(String) entryObj.getKey();
 String value = (String) entryObj.getValue();
 if(value.equals(valuesArray[i])){
   if (key.equals(getKey()) && value.equals(getValue()))
       pageContext.getOut().write("<option value=" +key + " selected> " + value + "</option>");
  else
pageContext.getOut().write("<option value=" +key + " > " + value + "</option>");

 break;
 }
      } // end of while
  }// end fof for
}catch(IOException ioe){
throw new JspTagException ("JSP TAG ERROR...");
}
return EVAL_PAGE;
}

what could be the possible reason ?
some help pls.

Thanks.
[ October 11, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Bear Bibeault]

A form reset occurs on the client, so showing us the server-side code is not helpful. What HTML for the select element is being sent to the browser?