Question

I create a tag whose content is static,

for example: header.html

then I insert to a static html eg: about.htm,

when open:

http://localhost:9000/about.htm

still get #{header /} in the browser.

how to solve it?

Answer 1

Did you put your header.html file in the app/views/tags directory?

update: Since you said you did, it’s probably because you need to render the html server side via a controller.

So try creating a controller and putting it in the controllers package. Something like this:

package controllers;

public final class About extends Controller {

    public static void about() {
        render();
    }
}

And then make sure that about.htm lives in the folder app/views/About. Note: I’m not entirely sure, but you might need to rename about.htm to be about.html (but probably not, but just keep it in mind if it doesn’t work for you).

So to get the controller to render the about.htm with the resolved header.html, you will need to hit the url http://localhost:9000/About/about

of course, you can clean that url up by adding this to the routes file:

GET /about    About.about

Using the above, you can simply hit this url http://localhost:9000/about.