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Advanced templating with jsp and sitemesh

Here's what i am trying to do:

I have a main template with header, menubar, body and footer. The body is replaced by the actual page called with the help of sitemesh like this:

<div class="main">
  <decorator:body />
</div>

Same for the title etc.

My problem is with the menubar: i would like to declare the content of the menubar in the actual page. The menus changes in every page, but i don't want to duplicate the layout of the menubar in every page.

My tools are JSP, Sitemesh and Spring MVC 3.

Is it possible? And if it is, how?

Solution

  • Here's how i did it :

    template.jsp :

    <div class="menubar" >
   <decorator:getProperty property="page.navig"></decorator:getProperty>
</div>

    actualpage.jsp :

    <body>
   <content tag="navig">
      my menu \o/
   </content>
...
</body>

    Note : without the 'page.' it does not work.