I\'m following this tutorial: http://www.thymeleaf.org/doc/layouts.html (got to Thymeleaf Layout Dialect section). In there you can find an example:
You can replace whole head tag.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">
<head lang="pl" th:replace="fragments/head :: head">
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>
resources/templates/fragments/head.html:
<head lang="pl">
<title>Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<link href="http://cdn.jsdelivr.net/webjars/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css"
th:href="@{/webjars/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css}"
rel="stylesheet" media="screen" />
<script src="http://cdn.jsdelivr.net/webjars/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js"
th:src="@{/webjars/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js}"></script>
<link href="../static/css/mycss.css"
th:href="@{css/mycss.css}" rel="stylesheet" media="screen"/>
</head>
I think I found a slightly less verbose way to for using th:replace
and th:fragment
together, e.g. to include common <head>
metadata and static resource includes in your pages.
Put the th:remove="tag"
in the fragment definition, so you don't have to repeat the th:remove="tag"
everytime including it.
fragment_head.html
<thymeleaf xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org"
th:fragment="head" th:remove="tag">
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" th:href="@{/css/vendor/bootstrap.min.css}"/>
</thymeleaf>
mypage.html
<head>
<thymeleaf th:replace="fragment_head :: head" />
</head>
Finally, I've found a way to achieve what I wanted.
In layout file <title>
tag must stay. All other tags I grouped with <object>
tag and annotated it as follows:
<head>
<title layout:title-pattern="$CONTENT_TITLE">Layout Title will be replaced by Page Title!</title>
<object th:include="/html/components/head :: head" th:remove="tag" />
</head>
In my html/components/head.htm file I had to remove <title>
tag so it won't be duplicated after include.
<head th:fragment="head">
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<!-- NO TITLE TAG HERE -->
...
</head>
This way head fragment is included in <object>
tag and thanks to th:remove="tag"
<object>
tag gets removed and my final HTML output is:
<head>
<title>My content title</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<!-- NO TITLE TAG HERE -->
...
</head>
Obviously, I removed NO TITLE TAG HERE message too, once I got it working.