Using spring form tag inside a custom JSTL library

Question

I need to create a custom JSTL tag which wraps multiple spring form tags. A single tag which produces the below content with custom attribute values as well.

       <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 cal-xs-12">
            <div class="form-group">
                <label for="statusCode">Employee Status Code: </label>
                <form:input path="statusCode" class="form-control" id="statusCode" value="${statusCode}" />
            </div>
        </div>

Is this achievable?

Answer 1

create a file formInputFiled.tag inside WEB-INF/tags/form directory.

formInputFiled.tag:

<%@ taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" %>
<%@ attribute name="id" required="true" rtexprvalue="true" %>
<%@ attribute name="path" required="true" rtexprvalue="true" %>
<%@ attribute name="label" required="true" rtexprvalue="true" %>
<%@ attribute name="value" required="true" rtexprvalue="true" %>
<%@ attribute name="parentDivClass" required="true" rtexprvalue="true" %>
<%@ attribute name="divClass" required="true" rtexprvalue="true" %>
<%@ attribute name="inputClass" required="true" rtexprvalue="true" %>
<div class="${parentDivClass}">
    <div class="${divClass}">
        <label for="${id}">${label}</label>
        <form:input path="${path}" class="${inputClass}" id="${id}" value="${value}" />
    </div>
</div>

Add taglib declaration in your jsp like below:

<%@ taglib prefix="form" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags/form" %>

Finally use the new tag like below:

<form:formInputFiled id="statusCode" path="statusCode" label="Employee Status Code:" value="${statusCode}" parentDivClass="col-md-4 col-sm-6 cal-xs-12" divClass="form-group" inputClass="form-control"/>