How to make fmt:formatDate work for form:input

Question

I have a jstl loop and I want to format the date of a form:input. I have tried many permutations of some of the suggestions that I\'ve fond online but I just cannot get it to wo

Answer 1

In the latest releases of the spring JSTL tags you can't use the attribute value into de tah form:input. If you try, you will get a value attribute is not valid for tag error.

In this case you must use a normal HTML input tag and put the path as the name of the input to trigger the binding to the Spring form like this

Ugly but works for me! ;)