form:html name attribute

[mucus snot <mu...@virgin.net>]

Hi,
I want to use the <html:form name="searchform" action=...> with the name 
attribute, so that I can post the form other than using the submit form 
using javascript e.g.

function sgenrePost(sgenreid){
     document.forms['searchform'].sgenreid.value = sgenreid;
     document.forms['searchform'].submit();
}

Unfortunately, the jsp won't compile without a accompanying type attribute, 
which as I understand it, has to be set to the name of the form/action bean 
(I could be wrong about this).
This has the unfortunate side effect of 
overwriting/destroying/reinitialising the original form bean on the request 
page, so that the form properties do not get reset to the what they were 
set with when the form was submitted.

Has anyone had this problem before?
Do I have to abandon the javascript posting, and just use url encoding?

Thanks, al