sir i trying to update the recin the database .jsp page fetches the data from the databse .and place the data in to the text feild . im trying to genrate the the registration no in the text feild automatically. with code given below but it is not working well, i m using the code Code: <%@page import="java.sql.*"%> <body> <% Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver"); Connection con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:school-db"); Statement stat=con.createStatement(); ResultSet rs=stat.executeQuery("SELECT COUNT(SID_GR) from Std-Info"); while(rs.next()){ String regno=rs.getString(1); if(regno.equals("")){ regno=("SOE-"+0001); } else { regno=("SOE-"+0000+regno); } } String regno="SOE-0001"; %> <html> <head> <title>home page of school</title> <style type="text/css" media="all"> </style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" media="all" /> <LINK href="style.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet> </head> <body> <TR> <TD class=infoboxcolumn width="15%" height=25>NAME:</TD> <TD borderColor=#dddddd width="35%" height=25><INPUT name="ID" value=\"<% regno %>\"></TD></tr>//error is here <tr> <TD >PASSWORD:</TD> <TD ><INPUT type="password" name="Pass" value="pass"></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> </form> </body> <br/><br/> </html>