Get value from HTML textarea in Servlet

Question

I'm trying to get a text from user. But i couldn't do it. It all the time returns null. My code is :

HTML :

<form action="gorev" method="post">
    <textarea id="gorev" rows="4" cols="50">

    </textarea>
    <input type="submit" value="ekle">
</form>

AND SERVLET :

String gorev = request.getParameter("gorev");

Show us what URL your browser sends to the application. – mentallurg May 23 '20 at 19:37 — mentallurg, May 23 '20 at 19:37

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 23 '20 at 19:38

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Replace

<textarea id="gorev" rows="4" cols="50">

with

<textarea name="gorev" id="gorev" rows="4" cols="50">

answered May 23 '20 at 19:38

Arvind Kumar Avinash

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '20 at 19:45

If you need to read request.getParameter("gorev"); from the request in your server, should have a form element (input,select,textarea,radio button, checkbox,etc) with name = "gorev". ids are used on the client side (usually by javascript for DOM manipulation and css for styling.) They will be not send to the server unlike name

<textarea name="gorev" id="gorev" rows="4" cols="50">
</textarea>

Get value from HTML textarea in Servlet

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