Rel attribute in JSTL or displaytag

Question

I'm using displaytah to display some users information. In one of the columns I need to have links to users complete details. The problem is that i need to use rel attribute for the link but it seems like displaytag doesn't offer this possibility.

<display:column href="foo" class="details" *rel="foo"*>Details</display:column>

A possible solution would be to use the JSTL <c:url> tag but I can't find any references regarding the rel attribute for this tag either.

Answer 1

The JSTL doesn't generate HTML elements. It can be used to generate URLs, though. Just use the following code :

<display:column class="details">
    <a href="foo" rel="foo">Details</a>
</display>

If the URL must be dynamically composed, which I suppose is true, then use the <c:url> tag.

<c:url var="detailsUrl" value="foo">
    <c:param name="userId" value="${user.id}"/>
</c:url>
<a href="${detailsUrl}" rel="foo">Details</a>