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    copied!<p>I've been told that the use of scriptlets (&lt;%= ... %>) in my JSP pages isn't such a great idea.</p> <p>Can someone with a bit more java/jsp experience please give me some pointers as to how to change this code so its more 'best practice', whatever that may be?</p> <p>This JSP is actually my sitemesh main decorator page. Basically my web design has a tab strip and a submenu, and i wish to somehow highlight the current tab and show the correct submenu by looking at the current request URI.</p> <pre><code>&lt;%@ taglib uri="http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/decorator" prefix="decorator" %&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;My Events - &lt;decorator:title /&gt;&lt;/title&gt; &lt;link href="&lt;%= request.getContextPath() %&gt;/assets/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div class="tabs"&gt; &lt;a &lt;%= request.getRequestURI().contains("/events/") ? "class='selected'" : "" %&gt; href='&lt;%= request.getContextPath() %&gt;/events/Listing.action'&gt;Events&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a &lt;%= request.getRequestURI().contains("/people/") ? "class='selected'" : "" %&gt; href='&lt;%= request.getContextPath() %&gt;/people/Listing.action'&gt;People&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="submenu"&gt; &lt;% if(request.getRequestURI().contains("/events/")) { %&gt; &lt;a href="Listing.action"&gt;List of Events&lt;/a&gt; |&lt;a href="New.action"&gt;New Event&lt;/a&gt; &lt;% } %&gt; &lt;% if(request.getRequestURI().contains("/people/")) { %&gt; &lt;a href="Listing.action"&gt;List of People&lt;/a&gt; |&lt;a href="New.action"&gt;New Person&lt;/a&gt; &lt;% } %&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="body"&gt; &lt;decorator:body /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>Thanks all</p>
 

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