list values

[phani kon]

I have a drop down list like below

<select
<option> name = quater value= 1
Q1<option>
<select>

In the servlet or other jsp , If I want the Q1 not the values of Q1, How would I achieve this.

suppose like this
String quater = request.getParmatername();



thanks a lot

[krishna kishore]

one way is to store the option's text to a hidden component and take the value of the hidden from the request.
NOTE: onchange in combo(option) event, in javascript, assign the text to the hidden component.

[Marimuthu Madasamy]

Check out

Class ServletRequest
Method: public java.util.Enumeration getParameterNames()

[Adeel Ansari]

The simplest and easiest is to place the Q1 as a value as well.
Is there any problem with that?

[Ben Souther]

 <select
<option> name = quater value= 1
Q1<option>
<select>
   

This is not a valid option tag or select tag.
Did you cut and paste this into Javaranch or did you type it yourself?
If the latter, please make sure that there are no typos in this code.

[phani kon]

Here is the code

 
<select name="quaterly" size="1">
                      <option <%=getSelection(1)%> value="1">Q1
                      <option <%=getSelection(2)%> value="2">Q2
                      <option <%=getSelection(3)%> value="3">Q3
                      <option <%=getSelection(4)%> value="4">Q4                     
                    </select>
 

I want to get the Q1,Q2,Q3 and Q4 not the values. What is the best way to do it?

[Ben Souther]

They're still malformed.
What does getSelection(1) return?

[phani kon]

here is the code for getSelection()

Private String getSelection(int i){
   GregorianCalendar gc = new GregorianCalendar();
 gc.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,-1);
if(gc.get(Calendar.MONTH) != i)
return "";
else
return "SELECTED";
 }
 

[Ben Souther]

So, it returns "SELECTED" or an empty string.

Browsers do not send the text of a select box option to the server, so you'll need to either map the values on the server or use Javascript to read the text for the given option and add it to the form submission. (as krishna mentioned)

[Bear Bibeault]

So why are you making the important dats not the value? Why do things the hard way? As said previously, make the value what you want returned. Simple.

[phani kon]

Is it possible to display web page in a table to show
row vertically and column horizontally

I want to show some thing like this

aaaa 1 2 3 43 4 4 4 4 4 4
bbbb 0 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5
eeee 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
dddd 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

How would I write the code in all columns horizonatlly
and row vertically

[Ben Souther]

This sounds like a completely different question.
It would be better it you started a new thread with it.