IntelliJ and JSP/JSTL cannot resolve taglib for JSTL in tomcat7 [duplicate]

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.

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