JSP Action Tags
- JSP specification provides the action tags to control the behaviour of the servlet engine
- Action Tags are used to control page flow, to dynamically insert a file, to reuse JavaBeans components etc.
- jsp: is used as prefix for Action tags.
Syntax:
| <jsp:actionName attributeName=”attributeValue”/> |
Commonly used JSP action tags are as follows:
- jsp:forward
- jsp:include
- jsp:param
- jsp:useBean
- jsp:setProperty
- jsp:getProperty
Common attributes of all action tags:
- id attribute: This attribute is used to uniquely identifying the action element inside the jsp page.
- scope attribute: This attribute is used identifying the lifecycle of the action element.