How to return jsp page in spring mvc 3 ajax call

Question

I have a main page with header, footer, left panel and main content. I want to dynamically change main content on click of left panel. For this I am using ajax call, ajax will call controller and controller will return jsp which I will replace in main content.

But the problem I am facing is that I am getting JSP properly if I am using purely html coding but if I use spring form it is not working.

Do I need to declared taglib in all jsp or only in Dashboard jsp.

If I declare taglib in all child jsp then it not working and I do not declare then form:input do not render in to html
Can we return jsp in ajax call to replace with main content because here it says only @ResponseBody (JSON) can be used in ajax call.
I am using ajax call because I don't want to reload all my header, footer and left panel because they will always remain same.

Ajax code

<script type="text/javascript">
  $(".ldMainContent").click(function(){
    var actionName = this.id;
    actionName = "${pageContext.request.contextPath}/sadmin/forward/"+actionName;
         $.ajax({
            url:actionName,
            type:"POST",
            data:"URL",
            success:function(result){
            $("#mainContent").html(result);              
          }
       });  
   });
    
</script>

I am using bootstrap in design

Karthikeyan Vaithilingam Karthikeyan Vaithilingam · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-04T09:37:50

The content can be loaded using jQuery's load method.

The code will be

$(".ldMainContent").click(function(){
   var actionName = this.id;
   actionName = "${pageContext.request.contextPath}/sadmin/forward/"+actionName;
   $("#mainContent").load(actionName);  
})

In your controller don't have @ResponseBody it is used to return object as JSON or XML. The controller should return a view for the JSP page which should only have the content that you want inside the mainContent.

Do I need to declared taglib in all jsp or only in Dashboard jsp.

Yes you have to declare the taglibs which ever jsp file you are using the tags.

How to return jsp page in spring mvc 3 ajax call

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