How do you put value or placeholder in form:input Spring MVC

Question

hi I would like to know how to place a attribute "value","defaultValue" or "placeholder" from form:input

Original Code

 <form:input path="ggpath" cssStyle="width:100%"/>

What I want

 <form:input path="ggpath" cssStyle="width:100%" value="example"/>

but if I place value attribute. It does give me an error. Any help would be greatly appreciated

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4232983/adding-html5-placeholder-attribute-to-spring-3-0-form-input-elements — Shrinivas Pai, Sep 21 '15 at 06:15

Balwinder Singh · Answer 1 · 2015-09-21T06:21:26.083

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Use following code

<form:input path="ggpath" style="width:100%" placeholder="example"/>

edited Sep 21 '15 at 06:21

answered Sep 21 '15 at 06:09

Balwinder Singh

@JonBonJoviMateo What is the error you are getting? – Balwinder Singh Sep 21 '15 at 06:15
@JonBonJoviMateo Updated the answer. Try it now – Balwinder Singh Sep 21 '15 at 06:21
Invalid Attribute Placeholder – Jon Sep 21 '15 at 06:31
@JonBonJoviMateo which version of spring are you using? – Balwinder Singh Sep 21 '15 at 06:35
@JonBonJoviMateo also show the full error stack trace that is showing up at your end – Balwinder Singh Sep 21 '15 at 06:46

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 18 '16 at 09:47

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One way to do this is to keep that default value in command object like

private string ggpath="example";

This will be displayed as default value in the form. From spring 3.0 you can use placeholder tag also directly

answered Mar 18 '16 at 09:47

Krishna

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