(Quick Reference)

link

Purpose

Creates an html anchor tag with the href set based on the parameters specified.

Examples

Example controller for an application called "shop":

class BookController {
     def list = { [ books: Book.list( params ) ] }
     def show = { [ book : Book.get( params['id'] ) ] }
}

Example usages for above controller:

<g:link action="show" id="1">Book 1</g:link>
<g:link action="show" id="${currentBook.id}">${currentBook.name}</g:link>
<g:link controller="book">Book Home</g:link>
<g:link controller="book" action="list">Book List</g:link>
<g:link url="[action:'list',controller:'book']">Book List</g:link>
<g:link action="list" params="[sort:'title',order:'asc',author:currentBook.author]">
     Book List
</g:link>
<g:link controller="book" absolute="true">Book Home</g:link>
<g:link controller="book" base="http://admin.mygreatsite.com">Book Home</g:link>

Example as a method call in GSP only:

<%= link(action:'list',controller:'book') { 'Book List' }%>

Results in:

<a href="/shop/book/list">Book List</a>

Description

Attributes

  • action (optional) - the name of the action to use in the link, if not specified the default action will be linked
  • controller (optional) - the name of the controller to use in the link, if not specified the current controller will be linked
  • elementId (optional) - this value will be used to populate the id attribute of the generated href
  • id (optional) - the id to use in the link
  • fragment (optional) - The link fragment (often called anchor tag) to use
  • mapping (optional) - The named URL mapping to use to rewrite the link
  • params (optional) - a map containing request parameters
  • url (optional) - a map containing the action, controller, id etc.
  • absolute (optional) - If set to "true" will prefix the link target address with the value of the grails.serverURL property from Config, or http://localhost:<port> if no value in Config and not running in production.
  • base (optional) - Sets the prefix to be added to the link target address, typically an absolute server URL. This overrides the behaviour of the absolute property, if both are specified.

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