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Asked: 2026-05-30T06:50:45+00:00

I can’t display images in JSP (and can’t access other things like external Javascript/jQuery

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I can’t display images in JSP (and can’t access other things like external Javascript/jQuery through SRC). The following JSP page just contains one <img> tag that can not display the image located by the SRC.

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>JSP Page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form action="Temp.htm" method="post">
            <img src="/images/temp.jpg" alt="Not available">
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

The images are in /WEB-INF/jsp/images. I have also tried to change the image location and ensure all the times that the path given to SRC is correct still it didn’t. The same is possible with the applications without the framework. It works there perfectly. What am I missing here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    First, /WEB-INF is not accessible from the outside.

    Second, if you use /images/temp.jpg, the browser will load images from the root of the web server, and not from the root of your web-app (which is deployed under a context path).

    Use the JSTL <c:url> tag to generate absolute paths from the root of the web-app:

    <img src="<c:url value='/images/temp.jpg'/>" alt=.../>
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