Struts 2 include tag example

Download It – Struts2-Include-Tag-Example.zip

Struts 2 “include” tag is used to include JSP or HTML page directly into the current page. See below example for the “include” tag demonstration.

1. Action

A simple Action class to do the forward task only.

IncludeTagAction.java

package com.mkyong.common.action;
 
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;
 
public class IncludeTagAction extends ActionSupport{
 
	public String execute() throws Exception {
 
		return SUCCESS;
	}
}

2. include tag example

It shows the use of include” tag to include a “mkyong.jsp” page into the current page “include.jsp“.

include.jsp

<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>
<html>
<head>
</head>
 
<body>
<h1>Struts 2 include tag example</h1>
 
<s:include value="/pages/mkyong.jsp"></s:include>
 
</body>
</html>

mkyong.jsp

<html>
<head>
</head>
 
<body>
<h2>Message from mkyong.jsp</h2>
 
</body>
</html>

3. struts.xml

Link it ~

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">
 
<struts>
 	<constant name="struts.devMode" value="true" />
	<package name="default" namespace="/" extends="struts-default">
 
		<action name="includeTagAction" 
			class="com.mkyong.common.action.IncludeTagAction" >
			<result name="success">pages/include.jsp</result>
		</action>
 
	</package>
</struts>