Evaluate list.contains string in JSTL

Question

I need to hide an element if certain values are present in the JSP

The values are stored in a List so I tried:

Answer 1

If you are using EL 3.0+, the best approach in this case is as this other answer explained in another topic:

For a Collection it's easy, just use the Colleciton#contains() method in EL.

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For an Object[] (array), you'd need a minimum of EL 3.0 and utilize its new Lambda support.

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If you're not on EL 3.0 yet, you'd need to create a custom EL function. [...]