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<h1 id="url">url</h1>
<p>Please make sure you have read the <a href="tag-syntax">Tag Syntax</a> document and understand how tag attribute syntax works.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: The <code class="highlighter-rouge">id</code> attribute is deprecated in Struts 2.1.x, and has been replaced by the <code class="highlighter-rouge">var</code> attribute.</p>
</blockquote>
<h2 id="description">Description</h2>
<p>This tag is used to create a URL.</p>
<p>You can use the &lt;param&gt; tag inside the body to provide additional request parameters. If the value of a param
is an Array or an Iterable all the values will be added to the URL.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: By default request parameters will be separated using escaped ampersands (i.e., &amp;). This is necessary
for XHTML compliance, however, when using the URL generated by this tag with the <code class="highlighter-rouge">&lt;s:property&gt;</code> tag, the <strong>escapeAmp</strong>
attribute should be used to disable ampersand escaping.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: When includeParams is <code class="highlighter-rouge">all</code> or <code class="highlighter-rouge">get</code>, the parameter defined in a <code class="highlighter-rouge">&lt;param&gt;</code> tag will take precedence over
any params included due to the includeParams attribute. For example, in Example 3 below, if there is a id parameter
in the url where the page this tag is included like <code class="highlighter-rouge">http://&lt;host&gt;:&lt;port&gt;/&lt;context&gt;/editUser.action?id=3333&amp;name=John</code>
the generated url will be <code class="highlighter-rouge">http://&lt;host&gt;:&lt;port&gt;/&lt;context&gt;/editUser.action?id=22&amp;name=John</code>
because the parameter defined in the <code class="highlighter-rouge">param</code> tag will take precedence</p>
</blockquote>
<h3 id="setting-a-default-value-for-includeparams">Setting a default value for <code class="highlighter-rouge">includeParams</code></h3>
<p>The property <code class="highlighter-rouge">struts.url.includeParams</code> can be used to set the default value of the <code class="highlighter-rouge">includeParams</code> attribute.</p>
<p><strong>Setting the default value of includeParams</strong></p>
<div class="language-xml highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nt">&lt;struts&gt;</span>
...
<span class="nt">&lt;constant</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">"struts.url.includeParams"</span> <span class="na">value=</span><span class="s">"none"</span> <span class="nt">/&gt;</span>
...
<span class="nt">&lt;/struts&gt;</span>
</code></pre></div></div>
<p>See <a href="../core-developers/constant-configuration">Constant Configuration</a> for further information.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: As of Struts 2.1.3 the includeParams constant defaults to <code class="highlighter-rouge">none</code>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This tag is used to create a URL</p>
<h2 id="attributes">Attributes</h2>
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td colspan="6"><h4>Dynamic Attributes Allowed:</h4> false</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="6">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th align="left" valign="top"><h4>Name</h4></th>
<th align="left" valign="top"><h4>Required</h4></th>
<th align="left" valign="top"><h4>Default</h4></th>
<th align="left" valign="top"><h4>Evaluated</h4></th>
<th align="left" valign="top"><h4>Type</h4></th>
<th align="left" valign="top"><h4>Description</h4></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">action</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">The action to generate the URL for, if not using value</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">anchor</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">The anchor for this URL</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">encode</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">true</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Boolean</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Whether to encode parameters</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">escapeAmp</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">true</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Boolean</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Specifies whether to escape ampersand (&amp;) to (&amp;amp;) or not</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">forceAddSchemeHostAndPort</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Boolean</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Specifies whether to force the addition of scheme, host and port or not</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">includeContext</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">true</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Boolean</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Whether actual context should be included in URL</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">includeParams</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">none</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">The includeParams attribute may have the value 'none', 'get' or 'all'</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">method</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">The method of action to use</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">namespace</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">The namespace to use</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">portletMode</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">The resulting portlet mode</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">portletUrlType</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Specifies if this should be a portlet render or action URL. Default is "render". To create an action URL, use "action".</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">scheme</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Set scheme attribute</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">value</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">The target value to use, if not using action</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">var</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Name used to reference the value pushed into the Value Stack (scope: action).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">windowState</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top">false</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">String</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">The resulting portlet window state</td>
</tr>
</table>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: When the <code class="highlighter-rouge">var</code> attribute is used with the <code class="highlighter-rouge">url</code> tag, the tag’s generated URL value will be placed into the request scope
<strong>in addition to</strong> the action scope.</p>
</blockquote>
<h2 id="examples">Examples</h2>
<pre><code class="language-jsp">&lt;!-- Example 1 --&gt;
&lt;s:url value="editGadget.action"&gt;
&lt;s:param name="id" value="%{selected}" /&gt;
&lt;/s:url&gt;
&lt;!-- Example 2 --&gt;
&lt;s:url action="editGadget"&gt;
&lt;s:param name="id" value="%{selected}" /&gt;
&lt;/s:url&gt;
&lt;!-- Example 3--&gt;
&lt;s:url includeParams="get"&gt;
&lt;s:param name="id" value="%{'22'}" /&gt;
&lt;/s:url&gt;
</code></pre>
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