In this recipe, you will learn how to display a text field, textarea
field, password
field, and hidden
field using Spring form tags. When the form is submitted, we will retrieve the field value in a controller method.
Here are the steps to display and process text fields:
If a default value is necessary, use a
String
attribute of the default object (refer to the Setting a form's default values using a model object recipe):user.setFirstName("Joe");
In the JSP, use one of these Spring form tags:
<form:input path="firstName" /> <form:textarea path="firstName" /> <form:password path="firstName" /> <form:hidden path="firstName" />
In the controller method processing the form submission, make sure that the
@ModelAttribute
object has a correspondingString
attribute:public class User { private String firstName; ...