How to read from a drop down in Servlet

[Hrishikesh Ghatnekar]

Hi,

I have one html which contains a dropdown list. I want to read the value of the selected item in the dropdown in my servlet.

I tried with following things , but it didn�t worked

In Html
<SELECT NAME="xyz">

In Servlet

Request.getParameter(�xyz �)

But this is returning null


What can be done Here?

Thanks
Hrishikesh

[Niki Nono]

check if the value xyz is there in the URL by changing your method of form to get.
if it is not there then your select box is not in your form.
please try and reply.

[Neeraj Dheer]

if a particular parameter has more than one value, all the values can be retreived by

String []allValues = Request.getParameterValues("name");

this is after verifying that the drop-down is in the form of course.

[Ben Souther]

Originally posted by Hrishikesh Ghatnekar:
Hi,
I have one html which contains a dropdown list. I want to read the value of the selected item in the dropdown in my servlet.
I tried with following things , but it didn�t worked
In Html
<SELECT NAME="xyz">
In Servlet
Request.getParameter(�xyz �)
But this is returning null
What can be done Here?
Thanks
Hrishikesh

That's how it's done. Was anything selected when the form was submitted?
Is the select tag inside the form?
Sometimes a typo in HTML before the form can cause the form to not submit correctly. If you don't find it, post the HTML.