What is the best way to create JSP layout template? [duplicate]
Put the following in WEB-INF/tags/genericpage.tag
<%@tag description="Overall Page template" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%><%@attribute name="header" fragment="true" %><%@attribute name="footer" fragment="true" %><html> <body> <div id="pageheader"> <jsp:invoke fragment="header"/> </div> <div id="body"> <jsp:doBody/> </div> <div id="pagefooter"> <jsp:invoke fragment="footer"/> </div> </body></html>To use this:
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%><%@taglib prefix="t" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" %><t:genericpage> <jsp:attribute name="header"> <h1>Welcome</h1> </jsp:attribute> <jsp:attribute name="footer"> <p id="copyright">Copyright 1927, Future Bits When There Be Bits Inc.</p> </jsp:attribute> <jsp:body> <p>Hi I'm the heart of the message</p> </jsp:body></t:genericpage>That does exactly what you think it does!
This was part of a great answer by Will Hartung on this link.