Creating drop down menu and form in Thymeleaf

Question

I want to create a drop down menu that allows a client to search users by a field specified in the drop down menu. For example, search by state, search by city, etc.

Answer 1

Because the accepted answer is not using Thymeleaf and this question is top in Google I'm adding my solution here.

In my situation statues is a list of Enum values. Model attribute is populated as usually you do in Spring:

mav.addObject("statuses", EnumSet.allOf(Status.class));

Group has a filed of type Status (the enum).

<div class="form-group row">
    <select class="form-control" id="status" name="status">
        <option th:each="stat : ${statuses}"
                th:value="${stat}"
                th:text="${stat}"
                th:selected="${stat.equals(group.status)}"/>
    </select>
</div>

This automatically populates the list and selects value that is selected in my Group instance:

Answer 2

You have just the required answer in this link:

http://fruzenshtein.com/spring-mvc-form-select-tag/