This post helps you understand the <fn:toLowerCase> tag in the JSTL function tags library with code example.

The fn:toLowerCase function converts all the characters of a given string to lower case.

 

JSTL <fn:toLowerCase> Syntax:

${fn.toLowerCase(<string or var>)}

 

JSTL <fn:toLowerCase> Example:

The following code snippet converts all the upper case characters to lower case.

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
	pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" prefix="fn"%>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
    <title>fn:toLowerCase Demo</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>fn:toLowerCase Demo</h1>
    <c:set var="text" value="CODEJAVA.NET IS GREAT SOURCE OF INFORMATION"/>
    Text before conversion:  <c:out value="${text}"/><br/><br/>
    <c:set var="text" value="${fn:toLowerCase(text)}"/>
    Text after conversion:  <c:out value="${text}"/><br/><br/>
  </body>
</html>

 

Output:

JSTL function fn-toLowerCase

 

Other JSTL Function Tags:

contains  |  containsIgnoreCase  |  endsWith |  escapeXml  |  indexOf  |  join  |  length  |  replace  |  split  |  startsWith  |  substring  |  substringAfter  |  substringBefore  |  toUpperCase  |  trim


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