need to show HTML in jsp using struts tagLib

Question

I am working on a Java (Struts) based web application. I have to show some content by getting from DB in jsp. Example content:

<div>
some code here
<a> link here</>
</div>

I am using textarea for the time but when I put this into textarea using following tag:

<html:textarea property = "contentFromDB" rows = "12" cols = "70"  styleClass = "textarea" disabled="true"/>

It shows the HTML in the textarea, is there any way I may show the content in the textarea with out HTML tags or I may show the content in any other tag like P or span , I cannot find these tags in the struts tagLib as well.

Answer 1

The <html:xxx> tags are for forms.

The best practice is to use JSTL's <c:out> with an appropriately-scoped object (eg, a request attribute) and set escape to false:

<c:out value="xxx" escapeXml="false" />

Alternatively if you're on an antiquated container or just have nothing better to do, use the <bean:write> tag . I don't recall its escaping behavior(s), if any.