Question

Trying to pass in a value for a input in a form seems to yield no results. The documentation for the helper inputText shows a value option as a part of the creation of the input, but I am not sure how to pass in the desired parameters to the constructor.

I am passing in the parameters as follows:

@inputText(accountForm("accountName"), args = '_label -> "Account Name: ", '_value -> "Test")

Answer 1

The value parameter you see in the helper inputText comes from the Field class. If you want to give your field a default value, you have to set the value in your Controller. You can set default values by using the fill method from the Form class.

Note: there is also the HTML5 placeholder attribute. You can pass this attribute with the inputText helper: @inputText(accountForm("accountName"), 'placeholder -> "Test")