EL expressions not evaluated in JSP

Question

There\'s a small problem with my servlets/jsp web application. I\'m trying to use jstl in jsp page. When I use any tag for example:

Answer 1

My JSP page also couldn't recognize the . Always executed the false condition i.e . This is what was happening.

This was an inner JSP page i.e

The inner JSP was loading first and did not have the below tag libraries. They were placed on the outer JSP. Adding them to the inner worked for me.

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" prefix="spring" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" prefix="fn" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form" %>