Can a a href act as a "submit" too?

Question

Hi all.
I need my <a href> to act as a "submit" button too so when i press the link i will also send parameters to a Servlet.
can i do it ?
I wrote this in my Jsp but it dosn't work:
<a href="<%=url%> name="submit" <%=name %"></a>
Pls help...

Answer 1

Hi ash.
U wrote:
Try using the following script in the html where the parameters are >needed (i.e. the called page)Dear Ash.
The a href opens the html file that the a href itself represnting.
This html file isn't one of my project files. it's a regular html file on the net.
Therefor when i click on it, a new window is opened (no parameters are passing to this html...), and i want that click to also send parameters to my servlet. So? what now? put the script in my servlet instead the
request.getParameter(...) ?
This is what i tried to do in my Jsp:
<form action = "/servlet/Search.HTML.getSearch">
// I tried with the "HIDDEN" Types and without them with no succcess.
<INPUT type= "HIDDEN" name=recipe_name value="<%=recipe_name%>">
<INPUT type= "HIDDEN" name=recipe_url value="<%=recipe_url%>">
<INPUT type= "HIDDEN" name=site_name value="<%=site_name%>">
<a href="<%= recipe_url %>?recipe_name=<%=recipe_name%>?recipe_url=<%=recipe_url%>?site_name=<%=site_name%> name="submit"<%=recipe_name%</a">In my servlet i get null in all the parameters...
Hope u (or any1 else) have an answer.
Cheers.</a>