Getting options text value in Java

Question

How I can get select option text value in Java? Select options are in javascript.

<select id="colors" name="colorselector" >
   <option value="red"> Red </option>
   <option value="blue"> Blue </option>
   <option value="orange"> Orange </option>
   <option value="blue"> Yellow </option>
</select>

Answer 1

Upon form submission, consider doing a request.getParameter("colorselector") in your servlet to retrieve the selected value.

Answer 2

String stringname=request.getParameter("colorselector");