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JSP Standard Tag(Action Element)

JSP specification provides Standard(Action) tags for use within your JSP pages. These tags are used to remove or eliminate scriptlet code from your JSP page because scriplet code are technically not recommended nowadays. It's considered to be bad practice to put java code directly inside your JSP page.

Standard tags begin with the jsp: prefix. There are many JSP Standard Action tag which are used to perform some specific task.

The following are some JSP Standard Action Tags available:


Action TagDescription
jsp:forward

forward the request to a new page

Usage : <jsp:forward page="Relative URL" />

jsp:useBean

instantiates a JavaBean

Usage : <jsp:useBean id="beanId" />

jsp:getProperty

retrieves a property from a JavaBean instance.

Usage :

<jsp:useBean id="beanId" ... />
...
<jsp:getProperty name="beanId" property="someProperty" .../>

Where, beanName is the name of pre-defined bean whose property we want to access.

jsp:setProperty

store data in property of any JavaBeans instance.

Usage :

<jsp:useBean id="beanId" ... />
...
<jsp:setProperty name="beanId" property="someProperty" 
value="some value"/>

Where, beanName is the name of pre-defined bean whose property we want to access.

jsp:include

includes the runtime response of a JSP page into the current page.

jsp:plugin

Generates client browser-specific construct that makes an OBJECT or EMBED tag for the Java Applets

jsp:fallback

Supplies alternate text if java plugin is unavailable on the client. You can print a message using this, if the included jsp plugin is not loaded.

jsp:element

Defines XML elements dynamically

jsp:attribute

defines dynamically defined XML element's attribute

jsp:body

Used within standard or custom tags to supply the tag body.

jsp:param

Adds parameters to the request object.

jsp:text

Used to write template text in JSP pages and documents.

Usage : <jsp:text>Template data</jsp:text>