how to pass html input type button name value to jsp function

Question

I want to pass html input type=button name to html function. Following is the code I tried but it doesn't help:

<input type="button" value="Delete" name="JSP" onclick=<%=delete1(%>this.name<%);%>/>
<%!
void delete1(String name){
<%name%>
}
%>

Answer 1

This is really a classic one: The key is to realize, where and when which code is executed - JSP on the server when the page is requested and rendered (i.e. before the response is send to the browser) and Javascript in the browser, after the browser receives the already generated response.