If you are a Java programmer, writing JSP pages for your web application and doesn't know much about JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, and HTML, then display tag is best for creating dynamic tables, pagination, sorting, and exporting data into PDF, Word and Excel format. Display tag is a JSP tag library, where code is written in Java but you can use them like HTML tags e.g. <display></display> . Though the display tag is an old library, I have always used it in JSP for displaying tabular data. It comes with sample CSS as well, which is good enough for many applications. Long time back, I have shared some display tag tips and examples, and many of my readers asked me to write about how to do pagination and sorting on the JSP page.