IntelliJ and JSP/JSTL cannot resolve taglib for JSTL in tomcat7

Question

First of all my JSTl code works on my server because i have the proper Jar file in the Lib folder in tomcat7. This is just really an IDEA problem. My questions comes down

Answer 1

First add this to the top of your .jsp file:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>

It will still give syntax error but you can fix that by adding javax.servlet:jstl:1.2 as a module dependency. To do that, follow these steps:

1. Click your project name and press F4 to bring up the module settings dialog.
2. Then go to the dependencies tab in the modules section.
3. Click the green + icon → library → From Maven.
4. Search for javax.servlet:jstl:1.2 in the search bar and press OK and it will download and add the above mentioned library as a module.
5. Now you should not have any kind of syntax error.