Question

I have a legacy HTML form that I want to make into a Spring form. Do I need to switch all of the form tags to Spring form tags or could I mix and match them as I please?

In other words, something like this:

<form:form modelAttribute="mymodel" action="/somecontroller/someaction" method="post">
<input type="text" name="something" value="">
</form:form>

instead of this (using only Spring form tags):

<form:form modelAttribute="mymodel" action="/somecontroller/someaction" method="post">
<form:input path="something" />
</form:form>

Answer 1

You can use regular <input /> elements within a <form:form /> without any problems. This is the conventional way to add submit buttons to a Spring form.

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