The value you're sending to the page is presumably 5.09 (or -5.95).
Percentage formatting in JSTL, as in Java, treats your value as a
multiple; thus, to format as a percentage, it multiplies by 100. (That
is, 5% is really .05; 500% indicates a multiplier of 5.)
Since your need doesn't really c
Hi all
I just tried formatting a percentage change for stocks. I was looking for
something like
+5.09%
-5.95%
Trying
resulted in
509%
-595%
which seems very strange to me - who formats percentages like this? Also,
how to switch on the "+" for positive values?
In the end, I used
%
Hmmm...
