title: ${pageContext.request.contextPath} is not working on plain HTML
body: <p>I'm using tomcat 7.0. Now I am facing an issue that could not load the css and js file.  trying to add ${pageContext.request.contextPath} but does not work, also tried c:url tag, but getting syntax error in eclipse.</p>
  
  <p>The structure of these files is:  </p>
  
  <p>WebContent<br>
  -content/css/lab3.css<br>
  html and js folder are under content folder as well</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0"&gt;
    &lt;display-name&gt;lab3&lt;/display-name&gt;
    &lt;welcome-file-list&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file&gt;/content/html/lab3.html&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
    &lt;/welcome-file-list&gt;
  &lt;/web-app&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the html head:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type= "text/css" href= "${pageContext.request.contextPath}/css/lab3.css"  media="screen, projection"&gt;
  </code></pre>