Radio Button in JSP Page Example





Hey guys in this article, you will learn about creating the radio button and reading the radio button value in JSP with full code example.

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Overview


To create a radio button in HTML we will use <input type="radio"> tag. It contains name attribute.

<input type="radio" name="gender" value="Male" />Male

To read the radio button value in JSP, we will use the request object

<%= request.getParameter("radioButtonName") %>

getParameter() takes the name of the radio button. Another shortcut method to read radio button value is using param object

${param.radioButtonName}

Using param object we can read the radio button value.

Complete Example


Follow the below steps to understand the complete example

Create a Project


You can check the following post to create a new Dynamic Web Project

Create a HTML form


Create EmployeeForm.html file under WebContent and add the following content

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
          "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
	<head>
		<title>Employee Form</title>
	</head>

	<body>
		
		<form action="employee-details.jsp">
			
			First Name:
			<input type = "text" name = "firstName" />
			<br/><br/>
			
			Last Name:
			<input type = "text" name = "lastName" />
			<br/><br/>
			Select country:
			<select name = "country">
				<option>India</option>
				<option>Australia</option>
				<option>Germany</option>
				<option>Spain</option>
				<option>Canada</option>
			</select>
			<br/><br/>
			Select Gender:
			<input type="radio" name="gender" value="Male" />Male
			<input type="radio" name="gender" value="Female" />Female
			<br/><br/>
			<button type="submit">Submit</button>
			
		</form>
		
	</body>

</html>

Create a JSP file


Create employee-details.jsp file under WebContent and add the following content

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
	
	<h1>Employee details</h1>
	<p>First Name: ${param.firstName}</p>
	<p>Last Name: ${param.lastName}</p>
	<p>Country: ${param.country}</p>
	<p>Gender: ${param.gender}</p>
</body>
</html>

Run the file


Right click on the File, choose Run As, choose Run on Server. It will open in a default web browser, you will see the following content
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Bushan Sirgur

Hey guys, I am Bushan Sirgur from Banglore, India. Currently, I am working as an Associate project in an IT company.

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  1. omendra kumar

    i am interested to learn java. also doing efforts for that.
    9522020003 from Gwalior

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