I want to create a dynamic table accepting book attributes when it has provided the no. of books to be entered on the previous page.
But I am not getting anything.
This is my code:
<table>
<c:forEach begin="1" end= "${ no }" step="1" varStatus="loopCounter">
<tr>
<td>
<input type='text' name="isbn" placeholder="ISBN">
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="Title" placeholder="Title">
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="Authors" placeholder="Author">
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="Version" placeholder="Version">
</td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</table>
${no} is the count of number of books I want to enter.
I am new here. Sorry if the title is not clear. Please help.
You're not getting anything because you're not iterating your list of books. Also, you're only printing lots of <input type="text" />
on each iteration. Your code should look like this (assuming that your list of books is lstBooks
and it's already initialized):
<table>
<!-- here should go some titles... -->
<tr>
<th>ISBN</th>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Authors</th>
<th>Version</th>
</tr>
<c:forEach begin="1" end= "${ no }" step="1" varStatus="loopCounter"
value="${lstBooks}" var="book">
<tr>
<td>
<c:out value="${book.isbn}" />
</td>
<td>
<c:out value="${book.title}" />
</td>
<td>
<c:out value="${book.authors}" />
</td>
<td>
<c:out value="${book.version}" />
</td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</table>
After understanding your problem based on comments, make sure the ${no}
variable is available at request.getAttribute("no")
. You can test this using a scriptlet (but this is a bad idea) or just using <c:out value="${no}" />
.
Note that as I've said, the variable should be accesible through request.getAttribute
, do not confuse it with request.getParameter
.
By the way, you can set a variable if you know which could be it's value like this:
<c:set var="no" value="10" />
And then you can access to it using ${no}
.
More info: JSTL Core Tag
Suppose You have given a List of map List<Map<String, Object>>
underEmployees
<caption>Emplyess Under You</caption>
<tr>
<th>Employee Id</th>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>Designation
</tr>
<c:forEach var="record" items="${underEmployees}" >
<tr>
<c:forEach var="entry" items= "${record}">
<th><c:out value="${entry.value}"></c:out></th>
</c:forEach>
</tr>
</c:forEach>