Is it possible to put a scriptlet inside the href attribute of a <a> tag?

[luisa torress]

I have the following code

   

<%   while(rs.next()){%>
                <TR>
                    <TD><%= rs.getString("MName") %></TD>
                    <TD><%= rs.getString("MType") %></TD>
                    <TD><%= rs.getString("Rating") %></TD>
                    <td><a href="addToQueue.jsp?movieid="  <%=rs.getString("ID")%>     >Add To Queue</a></td>
                </TR>

              <% }%>

 

I wanna pass the movieid parameter to another JSP in this case addToQueue.jsp. But I'm not getting it to work.
On the addToQueue.jsp I have this, but is printing blank.

<p>   <% System.out.println("requets: "+request.getParameter("movieid"));%>   </p>


help please

[Bear Bibeault]

The answer is that you must generate valid HTML.

Do a View Source on what is being sent to the browser and inspect the resulting HTML carefully.

[David Newton]

Also note that you're printing to System.out--which is on the server.

[mark goking]

yeah, System.out outputs to your console. you should use <%= request.getParameter("movieid") %> instead of <% %>

[rukmani vijayakumar]

you can include scriptlet inside a <a> tag like this:

<a href="http://localhost:8080/lab5/newcategory.jsp?category= <%=rs.getString(1)%>" > rs.getString(1) </a>

Your expression scriplet has to be inside the double quotes.

This works perfectly!!

[Bear Bibeault]

But violates best practices. Scriptlets should no longer be used in JSPs. The JSTL and EL are more appropriate choices.

[Stefan Evans]

And I guess while we're talking best practice, it would be worth noting that SQL code doesn't belong on a JSP page either.
You should never be dealing with a result set object in a JSP.
Write a bean method that runs the query and copies the result into a List of beans.
Your JSP page can then iterate over that list.