Where to put my taglib declaration?

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I've got a JSP and I'm going to start using the JSTL taglib. So I need to declare it and I do it by the row ``` <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %> ``` But where do I put this code? At the top of the file, before everything, or after imports? Does it matter?

Accepted Answer

Usually right at the top of the file. If you start using multiple taglibs you could also move it to a separate include file to safe typing. For example /WEB-INF/jspf/taglibs.jspf ``` <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=utf8"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c"%> ``` /WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp ``` <%@ include file="/WEB-INF/jspf/taglibs.jspf" %> ```

Where to put my taglib declaration?

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