I know that this is an old question, but as I was googling it was the first link in a results. So here is the jsp solution:jsp
<form action="some.jsp"> <select name="item"> <option value="1">1</option> <option value="2">2</option> <option value="3">3</option> </select> <input type="submit" value="Submit"></form>
in some.jspthis
request.getParameter("item");
this line will return the selected option (from the example it is: 1, 2 or 3)spa