How To Grab Textarea Data Using Thymeleaf

I have an array with fields, of which I've output onto html using textareas so that a user can edit them and save them again. I can set the data using a set method I have, but I'm

Solution 1:

You have a ways to go for this... you need to read up on creating thymeleaf forms (and maybe the whole spring MVC process).

http://www.thymeleaf.org/doc/tutorials/2.1/thymeleafspring.html#creating-a-form

In answer to your question, should be using a form that looks like this:

<form th:object="${fit}">
    <textarea class="form-control input-sm" rows="1" th:field="*{fitNumber}" />
</form>

th:object in combination with th:field automatically binds the value of the textarea to your object when you submit the form -- when you submit the form, spring will call fit.setFitNumber(value from input area) behind the scenes and your controller method will have the fit object passed to it as a parameter.

Solution 2:

Use th:field , that is auto set into the textarea