title: Use input as a URL in JSP
body: <p>I have a</p>
  
  <pre><code>Enter URL: &lt;input type = "text" name= "aURL"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in my form and I want in JSP to become a clickable URL. </p>
  
  <p>I tried with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;% String aURL = request.getParameter("activityURL"); %&gt;
  
  &lt;a href = "&lt;%= aURL %&gt;" &gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>