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    We can handle static content for example: js,css,images in Spring MVC by using mvc:resources element.
    mvc:resources element is used to point to the location of static content with a specific public URL pattern.


    For example define the below line in your application-servlet.xml file. This line will serve all requests for static content coming in with a public URL pattern like /assets/** by searching in the /assets/ directory under the root folder in our application.:

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

    Here you can find the complete example:

    LoginController.java:

    package com.evon;
    
    import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
    import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
    
    @Controller
    public class LoginController {
    
     @RequestMapping(value="/")
     public String login() {
      return "login";
     }
    }
    

    web.xml:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
        id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
    
     <servlet>
      <servlet-name>demo</servlet-name>
      <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
      <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
     </servlet>
    
     <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>demo</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
     </servlet-mapping>
    </web-app>
    

    Now define the below configuration in your demo-servlet.xml:

    <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
        xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
        xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">
    
    
        <context:component-scan base-package="com.evon" />
        <context:annotation-config />   
        <mvc:annotation-driven/>
        <!-- the mvc resources tag will do resource management -->
        <mvc:resources mapping="/assets/**" location="/assets/" />
    
        <bean id="viewResolver"
            class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
            <property name="prefix">
                <value>/WEB-INF/jsp/</value>
            </property>
            <property name="suffix">
                <value>.jsp</value>
            </property>     
        </bean>
    
        <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerExceptionResolver"  />
    
    </beans>
    

    Now, we can access a CSS file as I'm accessing style.css in the following jsp page:

    login.jsp:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
        pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
    <%@taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form"%>
    <%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" prefix="spring"%>
    <%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
    <html>
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Flippadoo Form Tester</title>
    <link href="/assets/styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    </head>
    
    <body>
    <div class="wrapper">
        <div class="formContainer">
            <form name="LoginForm"  action="authenticateUser">
                <div class="header"></div>
                <h2>Flippadoo Login</h2>
                    <dl>
                        <dt>userid</dt>
                        <dd><input type="text"name="j&#95;userName"></dd>
                        <dt>password</dt>
                        <dd><input type="password" name="j&#95;userPassword"></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <div class="buttonBlock"><input type="submit"name="button1"value="login" class="submitBTN"></div>
             </form>
    
    
        </div>
    </div>
    </body>
    </html>
    

    Hope this will help you :-)

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