Dynamically generate drop down menu

Question

I am using JSTL to generate a drop down menu on the page
<html:select size="1" property="reportYear">
for(int i = 2000; i < 2100; i++)
{ %>
<html:option value="<%=i%>"><%=i%></html:option>
<% } %>
</html:select>
this doesnt work the problem is printing those double quotes for the value...
I get the following error
[ServletException in:/ucpages/contract/CapReportList.jsp] Unable to compile class for JSP Generated servlet error: [javac] C:\Sun\AppServer8\domains\domain1\generated\jsp\j2ee-modules\uc\org\apache\jsp\ucpages\contract\CapReportList_jsp.java:249: cannot resolve symbol [javac] symbol : method setValue (int) [javac] location: class org.apache.struts.taglib.html.OptionTag [javac] jspxth_html_option_12.setValue(i); [javac] ^ [javac] 1 error '
also tried printing the double quotes using <% out.print("\""); %>
nothing works

Answer 1

Seemingly the primitive type int isn't allowed here. Something like the following is close to your code and outputs the result you want:
<form action="index.jsp">
    <select size="1" property="reportYear">
<%
for(int i = 2000; i < 2100; i++)
{ %>
<option value="<%=Integer.toString(i)%>"><%=Integer.toString(i)%></option>
<% } %>
</select>
</form>Or loop using tags with c:forEach.