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Java Spring Basics Creating Controllers and Views Using Thymeleaf to Serve HTML

Ed Pham
Ed Pham
3,102 Points
Posted by Ed Pham
Ed Pham
3,102 Points

View engine never specified

How does Spring know that we are using ThymeLeaf as our view engine? We have only specified ThymeLeaf as a dependency in our build.gradle file, but never explicitly instructed Spring to use ThymeLeaf in our AppConfig or anywhere.

1 Answer

Isaiah Duncan
Isaiah Duncan
3,241 Points
Isaiah Duncan
Isaiah Duncan
3,241 Points

You establish this connection, in addition to configuring our build.gradle, in the html file itself.

If you use the th: prefix on a standard, XML compliant HTML document, you will have issues. What allows us to use Thymeleaf is this portion of script right here:

<html lang="en" xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">
Ed Pham
Ed Pham
3,102 Points
Ed Pham
Ed Pham
3,102 Points

Oh, I missed that part there. Thanks!