Question

hi all i just want to create a simple jsp tag

such as :

abc.tag

<div>
    <table>
        ....
    </table>

    body content goes here

</div>


so when in the other pages i can use my tag like this
<tag:abc>
     acutally body content
</tag:abc>

how can i do it without java code??? coz the functionality for my tag is siimple,
i don`t want to write a bunch of stuff for it

Answer 1

sigh

This is why JSP gets a bad wrap.

JSP 2.0 has a feature called “Tag Files”. They let you create JSP tags using JSP.

What you want to do is trivial.

You will need to create a file named “abc.tag”, and put it in, for example, WEB-INF/tags within your WAR.

The contents are simple for this case.

<div>
    <table>
        <jsp:doBody/>
    </table>
</div>

To use the file in your JSP:

sample.jsp:

<%@ taglib tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" prefix="tag" %>
<tag:abc>
    actual body content
</tag:abc>

That’s it! Shazam. The only caveat about tag files is that you can not use JSP scriptlets within you tag file tags. But, then, you shouldn’t be do that anyway — it’s not a big deal.

Look up tag files for more details (like passing parameters and such).

Tag files, JSTL and EL make JSP 2.0 one of the best markup languages around.