Question

I invoke the “addObject” of a ModelAndView like so: modelAndView.addObject("userNames", userNames); The second argument is an ArrayList of strings. How can I iterate over this list in a JSP page?

This is what I have, but it doesn’t seem to work:

<select id="users">
   <c:forEach var="userName" items="${userNames}">
      <option>${userName}<option/>
   </c:forEach>
</select>

Do I need to add a tag import to be able to use elements in tag c?

Answer 1

Have you tried:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>

The c:forEach tag is in the core JSTL library. If you don’t already, you’ll also need the jstl.jar in your build path.