Play Scala Form Helper with custom HTML

Question

I\'m creating a form in Play using the following code:

@inputText(loginForm(\"password\"),
                        \'type -> \"password\",
                        


        

Answer 1

You can achieve this by creating a custom FieldConstructor (see http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.3.x/ScalaCustomFieldConstructors).

Create a new file views/helper/myPlainFieldConstructor.scala.html that contains the following:

@(elements: helper.FieldElements)

@elements.input

[For reference, you can see the default field constructor here.]

Then, in the view template containing your form:

@import helper._
@implicitField = @{ FieldConstructor(myPlainFieldConstructor.f) }

[...]

@form(action = ...) {
  @inputPassword(loginForm("password"))
}

Note: If you really need value="", you can add 'value -> "" to the helper's arguments, i.e.

@inputPassword(loginForm("password"), 'value -> "")

Or further customize the HTML with the generic input helper, as in:

@input(loginForm("password")) { (id, name, value, args) =>
    <input type="password" name="@name" id="@id" value="" @toHtmlArgs(args)>
}