(Quick Reference)
form
Purpose
Creates a form that submits to a controller, action, and/or id. Beyond what is described below, all the usual HTML attributes apply.
Examples
Example controller for an application called "shop":
class Book {
def list() {
[books: Book.list(params)]
} def show() {
[book: Book.get(params.id)]
}
}Example usages for above controller:
<g:form name="myForm" action="myaction" id="1">...</g:form>
results in:
<form action="/shop/book/myaction/1" method="post"
name="myForm" id="myForm">
…
</form><g:form name="myForm" url="[action:'list',controller:'book']">...</g:form>
results in:
<form action="/shop/book/list" method="post" name="myForm" id="myForm">
…
</form><g:form action="show">...</g:form>
results in:
<form action="/shop/book/show" method="post" >...</form>Description
Attributes
action (optional) - The name of the action to use in the link; if not specified the default action will be linkedcontroller (optional) - The name of the controller to use in the link; if not specified the current controller will be linkedid (optional) - The id to use in the linkfragment (optional) - The link fragment (often called anchor tag) to usemapping (optional) - The named URL mapping to use to rewrite the linkparams (optional) - A Map of request parametersurl (optional) - A map containing the action,controller,id etc.absolute (optional) - If true will prefix the link target address with the value of the grails.serverURL property from Config.groovy, or http://localhost:<port> if there is no setting in Config.groovy 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.name (optional) - A value to use for both the name and id attribute of the form taguseToken (optional) - Set whether to send a token in the request to handle duplicate form submissions. See Handling Duplicate Form Submissions
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