Grails Reference

Creates a form that submits to a controller, action, and/or id. Beyond what is below all the usual HTML attributes apply.

Examples

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

<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

Source

def form = {attrs, body ->
        out << "<form action=\""
        // create the link
        out << createLink(attrs)        out << '\" '
        // default to post
        if (!attrs['method']) {
            out << 'method="post" '
        }
        // process remaining attributes
        attrs.id = attrs.id ? attrs.id : attrs.name
        if (attrs.id == null) attrs.remove('id')
        outputAttributes(attrs)
        out << ">"
        if (request['flowExecutionKey']) {
            out.println()
            out << hiddenField(name: "_flowExecutionKey", value: request['flowExecutionKey'])
        }
        // output the body
        def bodyContent = body()
        out << bodyContent
        // close tag
        out << "</form>"
    }

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