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Dynamic HTML page titles using jsp

 
guru naan
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Hi all,
JSP newbie here. How am I supposed to create dynamic html page titles with JSP. I'm using page includes for my header/footer and would like to create a variable for my page title that would be different in each page.
So for my main content pages you would have something like
maincontent.jsp
<jsp:include page="includes/blocks/header.jsp" flush="true"/>
String pageTitle = "This is a page title";
this is where my main content would go.
<jsp:include page="includes/blocks/footer.jsp" flush="true"/>
and then in header.jsp
I would have to have something that calls the title variable
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title> out.println(pageTitle) </title>
HOWEVER the above does not work. Does anyone know how to do this
Thanks in advance
 
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posted 22 years ago
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Try putting the string title at the top of the page, before you start any of the HTML. Put the header somewhere below that (where it fits into the HTML).
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What you want to do is set the title string before you include the header page then pass the string into the header as a parameter.

maincontent.jsp

Then in your header page you can get the parameter passed in and use it like this:

hope that helps you out
[had to put a space in the jsp parameter tag after the : so a smiley wouldn't pop up]
[ August 20, 2002: Message edited by: Dave Vick ]

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Moving the variable would not work unless you change the jsp:include to a include directive (which in-lines the sub-page rather than making a request into it).
What you can do is to use the jsp: param tag to pass the title as a request parameter to your header page.
hth,
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P.S. Drat, Dave's response beat mine by a minute!
[ August 20, 2002: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

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Instead of using a <jsp:include> for headers and footers, try using a more robust template engine like the one that comes with Struts (or the newer Struts Tiles library).

James Carman, President<br />Carman Consulting, Inc.

 
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