Question

In my JSP page I am fetching values from a sql statement in a ArrayList, which is getting created as table content. a set of values in this list would be a url. How can I convert this particular td element (the one with url) to be a hyperlink action item?

Here is the jsp code

<table border="1" id="tableView">
    <thead>
        <th></th><th>ID</th><th>Name</th><th>Description</th><th>Active</th><th>Release Date</th><th>Url</th>
    </thead>

    <tbody>
    <%
    if(max==0)
    {
        %><tr><td></td><td colspan="5" class="viewa"><% out.println("No Records found."); %></td><%
    }
    else
    {

        for(int i=0;i<result.size();i++)
        {
            %><tr><td><input class="tablechkbox" type="radio" name="prodAlertsRad"/></td><%

            List r=new ArrayList();
            r=(List)result.get(i);
            for(int j=0;j<r.size();j++)
            {
                %><td class="viewa"><%out.print(r.get(j));%></td><%
            }
            %></tr><%
        } 
    }
    %>
    </tbody>
</table>

You can test it here jsfiddle

Answer 1

You need to make change in this part of your code.

for(int j=0;j<r.size();j++) 
{
   %><td class="viewa"><%out.print(r.get(j));%></td><%             
}

to make your url work as hyperlink, you need to use anchor tag inside ur td. Also, it is important to know the exact index where your url lies in the list r. Since in your case, url is at the last index, we can modify the code this way-

for(int j=0;j<r.size()-1;j++) //changed to size-1
{
   %><td class="viewa"><%out.print(r.get(j));%></td><%             
}
 %><td class="viewa"><a href="<%out.print(r.get(r.size()-1));%>"><%out.print(r.get(r.size()-1));%></a></td><%

you might need to do little handling to avoid indexOutOfBoundException. I leave it for u to do that 🙂