How to use <spring:url /> with an <a> tag?
<spring:url value="/something" var="url" htmlEscape="true"/> <a href="${url}">...</a>But you an also use c:url
<c:url value="/something" var="url"/> <a href="<c:out value='${url}'/>">...</a>The one important difference between c:url and spring:url is, that c:url does not html encode the created url. But for a valid url the & between the url parameters must be a &. So you need the c:out to escape it. -- In spring:url you have this functionality already included (if I understand the documentation correct).
Namespaces:
xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/tags"xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"