Help Implementing HTML OPTION with HTML

Question

Hi:
I have a HTML page with the folowing code:
</SELECT></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD width="156">Mode</TD>
<TD width="86"></TD>
<TD width="206"><SELECT name="mode">
<OPTION value="regmode" selected>REG Mode</OPTION>
<OPTION value="testmode">TEST Mode</OPTION>
<OPTION value="devmode" selected>Dev Mode</OPTION>
</SELECT></TD>
I need help to implement the OPTION using JSP and JavaBean,
For a simple text entry I am using the following code:
<input size=20 type=text name=userID value=<jsp:getProperty name="_welcomeJSPBean" property="userID"/>>
I am looking for a similar way to get all the posibles values for the HTML OPTION,
Thank in Advance.
Leonardo

Answer 1

This is why many of the tag libraries and frameworks exist. I use Struts, and it has html taglib that includes tags for automating select/option to a very high degree.
If the list is dynamic, you can use:
<html:select property="commtypeno">
  <html:options collection="commtypeList" property="commtypeno" labelProperty="commtype" />
</html:select>
Or, if the list is static, you can use:
<html:select property="commtypeno">
  <html:option value="1">Type 1</html:option>
  <html:option value="2">Type 2</html:option>
  <html:option value="3">Type 3</html:option>
</html:select>
Anthony