Question

I am trying to create a grid using JSTL <c:forEach>.

<c:forEach var="user" items="${userList}" step="1" begin="0">
    <div id="col1">
        <a href="#">${user.userName}</a>
    </div>
    <div id="col2">
        <a href="#">${user.userName}</a>
    </div>
    <div id="col3">
        <a href="#">${user.userName}</a>
    </div>
</c:forEach>

The output is:

user1   user1   user1
user2   user2   user2
user3   user3   user3
and so on...

But I want it to display like:

user1   user2   user3
user4   user5   user6
user7   user8   user9
and so on...

My CSS is:

#col1 {
    position: absolute;
    left: 5px;
    padding: 0px;  
}

#col2 {
    position: absolute;
    margin-left: 100px;
    padding: 0px;
}

#col3 {
    margin-left: 200px;
    padding: 0px;
}

How can I achieve this without using a table?

Answer 1

You need to declare a status variable, please try:

<c:forEach var="user" varStatus="status" items="${userList}" step="1" begin="0">
  <div id="col${status.index % 3 + 1}">
    <a href="#">${user.userName}</a>
  </div>
</c:forEach>