Home/ Questions/Q 713587
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-14T04:58:40+00:00

<select id=ordersSelect class=drop-down onchange=somemethod()> <c:forEach items=${orders} var=order varStatus=orderStatus> <option value=${order.id}> ${order.publicId} </option> </c:forEach> </select>

  • 0
<select id="ordersSelect" class="drop-down" onchange="somemethod()"> 

<c:forEach items="${orders}" var="order" varStatus="orderStatus">
  <option value="${order.id}"> ${order.publicId} </option>
</c:forEach>

</select>

I have the above peice of code in a JSP page, that receives a list of Orders and each order has some information, the particular information that I want to display in a SELECT field is the publicId.

The problem is that, on display there is only one OPTION in the SELECT and the rest of the order’s publicId s are displayed as normal text below the SELECT box and not an OPTION to select.

I found out that the publicId actually contains a String like A10/0001/0 and that is the character “/” is most probably causing the problem.

Any solutions/suggestion/ideas?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    This is more likely caused by a doublequote " in the option value. At any way, you need to escape HTML entities. You can use JSTL’s fn:escapeXml() for this.

    <%@ taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>

...

<option value="${fn:escapeXml(order.id)}">${fn:escapeXml(order.publicId)}</option>
    • 0