Clear a message on page load

[Sam Saha]

I am creating a confirmation message when a form is being submitted successfully. Now when I refreash the page that confirmation message does not go away. Is there any way I can remove that message when the page refresh. Thanks!

[Bear Bibeault]

How can we say anything without knowing what's putting it there in the first place?

[Sam Saha]

Here I am doing a form submission from a JSP. When the form submits I am calling a servlet from the form and in that servlet I am setting a attribute using setAttribute() for that message. Using request
.getRequestDispatcher I am coming to the JSP again. Now using getAttribute() I am populating that message. Now when I refresh the page I want this message removed.


This is the code for the Form:

<form name="feedbackForm" action="feedback" method="post">
<input type="hidden" id ="uRecid" name="userRecID" value="<%= request.getSession().getAttribute("USERRECID") %>" />
<input type="hidden" id ="appType" name="applicationType" value="AME" />
<input type="hidden" id ="fromFForm" name="fromFeedbackForm" value="Y" />
<div id="messageText">
<textarea id="feedbackText" name="message" rows="5" cols="70" class="dim" onkeypress="return imposeMaxLength(this, 3999);" onclick="javascript:changeClass(this.className, this.id);">The more specific your question or comment, the better service we can provide.</textarea>
</div>
<div id="message"></div>
<ul class="buttons">
<li class="secondary">
<input type="submit" value="Submit Feedback" />
</li>
</ul>
<% if(request.getAttribute("confMessage") != null){
System.out.println("The value of confmessage is: " + request.getAttribute("confMessage")); %>
<table>
<tr>
<td><%= request.getAttribute("confMessage") %></td>
</tr>
</table>
<% } %>

</form>

[Ankit Tripathi]

Hi Sam,
Why are you not using any client side scripting language like javascript for this purpose?

[Bear Bibeault]

Why would scripting be appropriate?

[Sean Clark]

Hey,

If it is at request scope that means that you are setting it on every request and when you press refresh it is another request.
You will need to have some logic in your servlet that sets it only when it is appropriate.

Sean