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JSTL – Import Tag <c:import>

<div dir&equals;"ltr" style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" trbidi&equals;"on">&NewLine;<div dir&equals;"ltr" style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" trbidi&equals;"on">JSTL Import tag is being used in JSP to include the content of other resource in the current JSP&period;&nbsp&semi; The &lt&semi;c&colon;import&gt&semi; tag provides all of the functionality of the &lt&semi;include&gt&semi; action but also allows for inclusion of absolute URLs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> For example&comma; using the import tag allows for inclusion of content from a different Web site or an FTP server&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<b><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;b> <b>Attribute&colon;<&sol;b><br &sol;>&NewLine;The &lt&semi;c&colon;import&gt&semi; tag has following attributes&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<table class&equals;"src" style&equals;"background-color&colon; &num;f7f7f7&semi; border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; font-family&colon; 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&num;eeeeee&semi; border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi; text-align&colon; left&semi;">Description<&sol;th>&NewLine;<th style&equals;"background-color&colon; &num;eeeeee&semi; border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi; text-align&colon; left&semi;">Required<&sol;th>&NewLine;<th style&equals;"background-color&colon; &num;eeeeee&semi; border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi; text-align&colon; left&semi;">Default<&sol;th>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr style&equals;"margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 0px&semi;">&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">url<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">URL to retrieve and import into the page<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">Yes<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">None<&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr style&equals;"margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 0px&semi;">&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">context<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">&sol; followed by the name of a local web application<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">No<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">Current application<&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr style&equals;"margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 0px&semi;">&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">charEncoding<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">Character set to use for imported data<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">No<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">ISO-8859-1<&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr style&equals;"margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 0px&semi;">&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">var<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">Name of the variable to store imported text<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; 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214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">No<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">Page<&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr style&equals;"margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 0px&semi;">&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">varReader<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; padding&colon; 5px&semi;">Name of an alternate variable to expose java&period;io&period;Reader<&sol;td>&NewLine;<td style&equals;"border-collapse&colon; collapse&semi; border&colon; 1px solid rgb&lpar;214&comma; 214&comma; 214&rpar;&semi; margin&colon; 0px&semi; 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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!

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