Question

I have a List<String> in the controller which im passing to the view. I need to populate <form:select> with that data.

I tried setting the itemValue attribute to "name" but that did not work.

Answer 1

You can do the following:

<form:select path="selectName">
    <form:option value="0" label="Select an Option" />
    <form:options items="${nameOfList}" />
</form:select>

By providing only the items attribute to the form:options tag, it should make the value and label the value of each String in your list.