Browser can't access/find relative resources like CSS, images and links when calling a Servlet which forwards to a JSP

Question

I\'m having trouble with loading CSS and images and creating links to other pages when I have a servlet forward to a JSP. Specifically, when I set my

Answer 1

You can try out this one as well as. Because this worked for me and it's simple.

<style>
    <%@ include file="/css/style.css" %>
</style>

Answer 2

You must analyse the actual HTML output, for the hint.

By giving the path like this means "from current location", on the other hand if you start with a / that would mean "from the context".

Answer 3

If you are using Spring MVC, then you need to declare default action servlet for static contents. Add the following entries in spring-action-servlet.xml. It worked for me.

NOTE: keep all the static contents outside WEB-INF.

<!-- Enable annotation-based controllers using @Controller annotations -->
<bean id="annotationUrlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping">
    <property name="order" value="0" />
</bean>

<bean id="controllerClassNameHandlerMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping">
    <property name="order" value="1" />
</bean>

<bean id="annotationMethodHandlerAdapter" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter"/>

Answer 4

Your welcome page is set as That Servlet . So all css , images path should be given relative to that servlet DIR . which is a bad idea ! why do you need the servlet as a home page ? set .jsp as index page and redirect to any page from there ?

are you trying to populate any fields from db is that why you are using servlet ?

Answer 5

Below code worked for me.

instead of use <%@ include file="styles/default.css"%>

Answer 6

I faced similar issue with Spring MVC application. I used < mvc:resources > tag to resolve this issue.

Please find the following link having more details.

http://www.mkyong.com/spring-mvc/spring-mvc-how-to-include-js-or-css-files-in-a-jsp-page/