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including a css file to a jsp from another folder

 
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hi all.. how can i include the link of the css file to my jsp? here's the directory hierarchy and the code i tried (but didn't work).. please help..


my jsp file is in the web folder


<head>
<title>refreshed</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/HTML; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../src/java/Style/style.css" />
</head>
 
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Hey,

Shouldn't you have your styles (and images) in your web folder. In a typical java web-app you would have them in the same folder that contains your WEB-INF folder and then reference them absolutely rather than relatively as you have done in your example.

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As mentioned, all CSS and JavaScript files should be in the web content folder*. Since they're not Java source, they shouldn't be in anything called "java", because nobody would ever think to look there for non-Java resources.

* At least after deployment. Before deployment they can be anywhere you want.
 
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And once you've moved the file to an appropriate location, be sure that you fix the URL in your page. It should be server-relative, starting with the context path.
 
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alright..thanks for the response... it's all working now..after i transferred the images and stylesheets to the web folder
and did something like <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Style/style.css" />

i still have a question though... well, if given the chance to still keep the original locations of the files (basing on the image), what's the reason why my initial code (<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../src/java/Style/style.css" />) didn't work? just wanna clear things out..
 
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Firstly, you are still using page-relative addressing, and while that may be working for you, it's fragile and not a good practice.

Secondly, it didn't work because the file wasn't part of the web app and couldn't be served.
 
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okay, so what should be the suggested way of including css files in a jsp?
 
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See my first reply. It's also covered in the JSP FAQ.
 
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Use an absolute path, including the app context.
 
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David Newton wrote:Use an absolute path, including the app context.


I prefer the term "server-relative" because most people think of "absolute" as including the http:// and domain parts.
 
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i'm kinda new in this field, so could you show me some example of that "server-relative" way of including the css??
 
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It's all in the JSP FAQ.
 
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Bear Bibeault wrote:I prefer the term "server-relative" because most people think of "absolute" as including the http:// and domain parts.


Good point.
 
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