how to iterate list in a table using jstl

[srikanth Thandra]

Dear All ,

I am having a List<Menu> called menuList with 1 parent menu having 5 child menu objects. Menu object contains menuName . This list is placed in session scope.

I want to display the above list using jstl in jsp by table element.

Now my requirement of displaying the above list is per Row only 3 td elements should be there.

<table>
<c:forEach var="menu" items="${sessionScope.menuList}">
 How to display out of the above 5 child menu names 3 in one row and 2 in another row. What will be the condition of creating row(tr)

</c:forEach>

[Christophe Verré]

Use the varStatus attribute of the c:forEach tag. It will tell you the loop counter, so that you can close your row every 3 items.

[srikanth Thandra]

Thanks for your reply!

I have tried with var Status attribute.But the display of menus is like below:

menu1
menu2
menu3
menu4
menu5

I want the below display format:
menu1 menu2 menu3
menu4 menu5

<table>
 <c:forEach var="menu" items="${sessionScope.menuList} varStatus="status"">
    Now what should the condition of creating tr
    
 </c:forEach>
 </table>

[Paul Okeke]

It is not just like that, you will need to <c:if ... to test and control the condition you need.

Break out of, when your condition if meant.>

[Christophe Verré]

As Paul said, it's not just like that. Do you understand which properties are available through the varStatus ? If not, download the JSTL specification.