How do you set and html attribute to some jsp variable?

[Ken Adams]

Bascially I got
<% String myString = request.getParameter("blah")%>

Now futher down I want to set a textfield to that value.
i have tried this but it claims that it doesn't know what id is. How do I
reference it.
The reason I don't just put the request.getParameter right in the html
tag,which I know works, is because I want to do some further manipulation to
the string before I set the value of the txt field. Also it isn't very
convient to put the html tag inside the jsp for maintenance issuse.

<input type="text" name="id" value="<%=id%>" >


Thanks Alot

 

[J2Be]

Bascially I got
<% String myString = request.getParameter("blah")%>

Now futher down I want to set a textfield to that value.
i have tried this but it claims that it doesn't know what id is. How do I
reference it.
The reason I don't just put the request.getParameter right in the html
tag,which I know works, is because I want to do some further manipulation to
the string before I set the value of the txt field. Also it isn't very
convient to put the html tag inside the jsp for maintenance issuse.

<input type="text" name="id" value="<%=id%>" >


Thanks Alot

<% String myString = request.getParameter("blah")%>
if you want to get the values from the
----> <input type="text" name="id" value="<%=id%>" > <----
you've to use
<% String myString = request.getParameter("id")%>

and after checking that myString is set
<input type="text" name="id" value="<%=myString%>" >


please explain better your problem if that's not what you meant
in your question.