How do I include other pages using jsp:include?

By Wayan Saryada in Taglib and JSTL 0 Comment

The <jsp:include/> tag is use to include another page fragment of a JSP page into another page. This is useful when you have a common page such as header, footer or a menu that applied to many of all of your pages.

<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<html>
<head>
    <title>&lt;jsp:include/&gt; Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
    <jsp:include page="common/header.jsp"/>
</div>

<div id="main">
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit,
    sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna
    aliqua.
</div>

<div id="footer">
    <jsp:include page="common/footer.jsp"/>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Here are the page fragment of the header.jsp, footer.jsp and menu.jsp. All of them are placed in the common folder in the same location with the index.jsp file.

header.jsp

<strong><jsp:include/> Demo</strong>
<hr/>
<jsp:include page="menu.jsp"/>

footer.jsp

<hr/>
© 2009 Kode Java Org.

menu.jsp

<a href="/ex01/index.jsp">HOME</a>

When you access your page from the servlet container such as Apache Tomcat you’ll have a complete display of a page that contains header, menu, content and footer.

How do I include a page fragment into JSP?

By Wayan Saryada in JSP Snippets 1 Comment

In this example you can learn how to include a JSP fragment into another JSP page. This is a common practice when creating a web application where we usually have a navigation section, the main content and the footer of a web page. Using the include directive make it simpler to maintain the fragment of a web page, which mean that when we need to change for example the footer section we just need to alter the footer include file and all the page that includes it will get the benefit.

The page inclusion that using the include direction will occurs at page translation time, it is when the JSP page is translated into a Servlet by JSP container. We can use any file extension name for the JSP fragment used by the include directive. In this example we use the .jspf extension which is short for JSP Fragment.

Here is an example of JSP with include directive.

<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSP - Include Directive</title>
</head>
<body>

<div id="header">
    <%@ include file="/include/common/header.jspf" %>
</div>

<div id="content">
    Main application content goes here!
</div>

<div id="footer">
    <%@ include file="/include/common/footer.jspf" %>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Header
<hr/>

<hr/>
Footer

And here is the page that you will get:

JSP Include Directive

JSP Include Directive