Retreiving the value of select option in Servlets

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I have a select tag in my form which is to be send to Servlet. I have made the contents of the select tag dynamic(it gets values from a table column in DB). \[code\]Select Branch:-<select> <% while(r.next()){ %> <option><%=r.getString("code")%></option> <% } r.close(); s.close(); con.close(); %> </select> \[/code\]('r' is ResultSet) My problem is how can i send the value the user has selected from select tag to servlet. For using Request.getparameter("name") I must know the value of option tag. I my confused.Please help.. Thanks.