Spring 3 doesn't return css

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I just started with Spring 3 MVC today. Running into a dilemma... web.xml maps everything ("/") to Spring. But as a result, when I put something like: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/css/navigation.css" />

It is not returned by the container...

Perhaps someone could suggest how to handle this?

Thanks.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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How are you trying to serve it? If you are trying to serve it from the webapp itself (ie WEB-INF/static/css) You would need to include a servlet to do that for you. In the spring context you can include something like

 <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

You can see more here

How to handle static content in Spring MVC?

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answered Jan 05 '12 at 19:10

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '12 at 19:12

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Use mvc:resources, as explained in the documentation. This allows service static resources from the web app, but also from the classpath.

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 05 '12 at 19:25

As suggested by others, use mvc:resource to serve your static resources.

<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

It is also recommended to avoid using scriptlets in your JSP code if possible. You should instead use JSTL to build the correct path to your CSS file.

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
...
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<c:url value="/resources/css/navigation.css" />"/>

Spring 3 doesn't return css

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