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Thread: Newbie needs help in simple servlet program

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    Default Newbie needs help in simple servlet program

    i'm a newbie so help me out here in simple program

    java code:

    import java.io.* ;
    import javax.servlet.* ;
    import javax.servlet.http.* ;


    public class color extends HttpServlet
    {

    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
    throws ServletException, IOException {
    res.setContentType("text/html");
    PrintWriter pw = res.getWriter();
    String color = req.getParameter("color") ;
    pw.println("The color is" + color) ;
    pw.println("<html>") ;
    pw.println("<body bgcolor = "color">") ;
    pw.println("</body>") ;
    pw.println("</html>") ;
    }
    }


    i want to display the color in background along with the text "the color is" whenever appropriate color
    is selected but whenever i compile this program i get 1 error as follows
    ' ) ' is expected at line pw.println("<body bgcolor = "color">") ;
    where am i supposed to put that bracket?
    thanks in advance


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    Smile Re: Newbie needs help in simple servlet program

    Hi,

    as you want to have the color value to be displayed then you need to replace with below statement

    pw.println("<body bgcolor = \""+color+"\">") ;

    Thanks,
    Raghu.

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