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Spring MVC form tags are configurable and reusable building blocks for web pages. These tags provide a simple way for JSP to develop, read, and maintain.
Spring MVC form tags can be considered as tags with data binding awareness, which can automatically set data to a Java object/bean and retrieve it from it. Here, each tag supports a set of properties corresponding to its corresponding HTML tag, making the tag familiar and easy to use.
The form tag library is located in spring-webmvc.jar. To enable support for the form tag library, you need to refer to some configurations. Therefore, add the following directive at the beginning of the JSP page:
<%@ taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" %>
Let's take a look at some commonly used Spring MVC form tags.
| Form Tags | Description |
| form: form | This is a container tag that includes all other form tags. |
| form: input | This tag is used to generate text fields. |
| form: radio | This tag is used to generate radio buttons. |
| form:checkbox | This tag is used to generate checkboxes. |
| form:password | This tag is used to generate password input fields. |
| form: select | This tag is used to generate drop-down lists. |
| form: textarea | This tag is used to generate multi-line text fields. |
| form: hidden | This tag is used to generate hidden input fields. |
Spring MVC form tags are container tags. It is a parent tag that contains all other tags in the tag library. This tag generates HTML form tags and exposes binding paths to internal tags for binding.
<form:form action="nextFormPath" modelAttribute=?abc?/>
In the next section, we will delve into each form tag in detail.