Introduction In this post, I will introduce how to achieve html layout by jsp. You just define layout and put piece of elements in each actual jsp. I won't explain details but just show you an quick example for sharing "header & footer" in all jsp pages. If you are interested in how & why it works, please refer jsp documentation (or googling). Code Simply you need to prepare a layout tag file and actual jsp files. Prepare layout.tag (actually name is not so important) and put it under WEB-INF/tags. Put header.jsp and footer.jsp under WEB-INF/views/ Create actual jsp which include taglib you previously defined above step. Ok now I will show you the actual codes. layout.tag A key part is using fragment feature. <%@tag description="Layout template" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> <%@attribute name="main" fragment="true" %> <%@attribute name="head" fragment="true" %> <%@attribu