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JSTL fmt Tag message <fmt:message> Example

<fmt:message> tag is used to map the key from the key-value paired mapped localized message and returns the value by replacing the key to the respective value.

Syntax
<fmt:message

key=”<string>”

bundle=”<string>”

var=”<string>”

scope=”<string>”/>

Attributes of <fmt:message>:
key : This attribute is an optional attribute that is used for specifying the key (key from the key-value paired localized message) of which value you want to show.
bundle : This attribute is an optional attribute that is used for specifying the Localization context in whose resource bundle message key’s value you want to show.
var : This attribute is an optional attribute that is used for specifying the name of the scoped variable that have stored the localized message.
scope : This attribute is an optional attribute and is used for specifying the scope of var.

Example :

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>JSTL fmt:message Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<fmt:setBundle basename="myapp" var="lang"/>
<fmt:setLocale value="hi_IN"/>
<fmt:message key="Name" bundle="${lang}"/><br/>
<fmt:message key="Address" bundle="${lang}"/><br/>
<fmt:message key="Number" bundle="${lang}"/><br/>
</body>
</html>

myapp.properties

Name=u0926u093Fu0928u0947u0936
Address=u0928u094Bu090Fu0921u093E
Number=9988998899

Output :

When the execution process will be completed successfully an output will be displayed on your browser as :

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Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!