spring mvc: How Can I give the <form:textarea /> tag a default value?

Question

I have a problem with giving the tag a default value.
When I created a .jsp file as follow,

Answer 1

I faced a similar situation. The below code:

<form:textarea path="Content" id="my-text-box">${content}</form:textarea>

Worked out for me.

Answer 2

This works in Spring 4 where the form:textarea tag must be empty:

<form:textarea path="content" value="${Object.content}"/>

Answer 3

You can use jquery to get the model attribute value and set the value in textarea

 $( function() {
         var example = parseInt('${example}');       
         $("#bot").val(example); 
    } );

Answer 4

Maybe you can use placeholder.

            <form:textarea
                            id="id"
                            class="class"
                            path="path"
                            placeholder="test"/>

Answer 5

You can also set the defaul text in the Model as well. Your jsp would have:

<form:textarea path="my-text-box" rows="20" cols="100" cssClass="rounded"/>

and then in the Model, you'd have:

private static final String DEFAULT_textareacontent = "Hello World";
private String my-text-box = DEFAULT_textareacontent;

Not sure if this is a best practice or not, but it seems to work for me.

Answer 6

You have to use JS along with Spring MVC to make this work. This is what I did:

1. Change your textarea to basic html as below:

    <textarea id="myTextArea" onchange="here();">${content}</textarea>
     OR
    <textarea id="myTextArea" onchange="here();">third hello world!</textarea>
   

2. Add a hidden input field, using spring mvc:

   <form:input type="hidden" id="content" path="Content" value="third hello world!"/>
   

3. Add the following JavaScript:

   <script>
     var text1 = document.getElementById('myTextArea').value;
     function here() {
        text1 = document.getElementById('myTextArea').value;
        document.getElementById("content").value = text1;
     }
   </script>