Question

how would I concatenate a string so It can be rendered in HTML properly?

<c:set var="filter" value="${view}"/>

For example, I do something like this in JavaScript:

var view;
var sors;
var filterCriteria = view + "<br>";
if  (sors != null)  
{
   filterCriteria = filter + "SORs: " + sors + ", ";
}

Answer 1

Then the answer is

${view} <br> whatever

or

<c:out value="${view}"> <br> whatever

The first one doesn’t escape the HTML special chars in view (<, >, &, ', "), whereas the second one does (and transforms them to <, >, &, etc.)