(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 linked

  • controller (optional) - The name of the controller to use in the link; if not specified the current controller will be linked

  • 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 of request parameters

  • url (optional) - A map containing the action,controller,id etc.

  • relativeUri (optional) - Used to specify a uri relative to the current path.

  • absolute (optional) - If true will prefix the link target address with the value of the grails.serverURL property from application.groovy, or http://localhost:<port>; if there is no setting in application.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 tag

  • useToken (optional) - Set whether to send a token in the request to handle duplicate form submissions. See Handling Duplicate Form Submissions

  • method (optional) - The form method to use, either POST or GET; defaults to POST