Jun 06 2008

Quick Tip: Formatting Number Columns with DisplayTag

Tag: displaytag,java,jsp,spring,webpmularien @ 9:39 pm

Displaytag supports easy display of formatted number columns using the format attribute on <display:column> – however, it’s not really well documented on the Displaytag site. Here’s how to do simple number formatting without requiring a decorator class:

<displaytag:column property="amount" title="$ Amount" format="{0,number,#.##}"/>

This will display a decimal formatted to a maximum of 2 decimal places!