FORM within a FORM

Question

Trying to display listings of a search for a bookstore, and then either display a review of the book OR select the item and put it in the shopping cart. I have a large FORM which puts the selected items into the shopping cart and I would like to post a FORM for each item in the table which would query the database for reviews of the book in question. The problem is that when I hit the external FORM's click it only passes the first line in the table of HIDDENs, even if I have many lines. It also passes the value of the internal forms even though, technically, it shouldn't even look at the values in the internal FORMs. What is going on that the servlet not only grabs from the internal FORM when the External FORM is submitted, but it also stops grabbing after the first Internal FORM???
CODE:
"<P/>"+
"<FORM name='bigone' method='GET' action='http://localhost:8080/servlet/ToCart'>"+
"<TABLE border='2' cellpadding='2'>"+
"<TR>"+
"<TD ID='big'>Title</TD><TD ID='H'>Author</TD><TD ID='H'>ISBN</TD>""<TD ID='H'>Price</TD><TD ID='H'>In Stock</TD><TD ID='H'>Shopping Cart</TD>"+
"<TD ID='H'>Reviews</TD>"+
"</TR>");
while (rs.next()) {
count++;
String tit=rs.getString(1);
String aut=rs.getString(2);
String izzy=rs.getString(3);
out.println ("<TR>");
out.println ("<TD>" + rs.getString(1) + "<INPUT type='hidden' name='title"+count+"' value='"+tit+"'></TD>");
out.println ("<TD>" + rs.getString(2) + "<INPUT type='hidden' name='author"+count+"' value='"+aut+"'></TD>");
out.println ("<TD>" + rs.getString(3) + "<INPUT type='hidden' name='isbn"+count+"' value='"+izzy+"'></TD>");
Double rsCost =new Double(rs.getString(4));
out.println ("<TD>$" + df.format(rsCost) + "<INPUT type='hidden' name='price"+count+"' value='"+rsCost+"'></TD>");
if (rs.getInt (5) > 0)
     out.println ("<TD>Yes</TD>");
else
     out.println ("<TD>No</TD>");
out.println ("<TD><INPUT type='text' name='quan"+count+"' size='3' value=''></TD>");
out.println ("<TD><FORM name='form"+count+"' method='GET' action='http://localhost:8080/servlet/Reviews'>"+
"<INPUT type='hidden' name='isbn' value='"+izzy+"'>"+
"<INPUT style='color: black; font-size=12;' type='button' value='Reviews' onclick='document.form"+count+".submit();'>"+
"</FORM></TD></TR>");
"<INPUT type='hidden' name='dropnot' value='add'>"+
<INPUT type="hidden" name="looper" value="'+count+'">+
"</TD>"+
"<TD>"+
"<INPUT style='color: black; font-size=12;' type='button' value='I want this.' onclick='document.bigone.submit();'>"+
"</TD></TR>"+
"</TABLE>"+
"</FORM>"+

Answer 1

When a form is submitted, it sends all the input parameters inside <FORM></FORM> tag. Now if you have nested forms, its going to cause problem. You need to make sure that a FORM ends with /FORM before you start second FORM.