Methods in JSP's

[Trevor M. Lango]

I would like to be able to have an html control that invokes some
arbitrary method.

I tried the following:

<input type="button" onclick="<% someMethod( ); %>">

Which generates the following code:

out.write("<input type=\"button\" onclick=\"");
someMethod( );

Which is not what I intended, as someMethod( ) gets called independetly
of the button being clicked.

Any ideas or suggestions?

 

[Igor N. Kolomiyets]

You cannot invoke server side method with the client side event handler.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

"Trevor M. Lango" ...

You cannot invoke server side method with the client side event
handler.

(whispers) javascript?

 

[Andy Fish]

Trevor,

just to expand on the previous replies. you will need to have the button
invoke some javascript which navigates to another JSP, or post a form to
another JSP.

if you really don't want to do this, your