form:hidden tag should allow most (All?) of the same HTML attributes as form:input [SPR-7249]

[spring-projects-issues]

Tom Duffey opened SPR-7249 and commented

The form:hidden tag should support the same HTML attributes as form:input. After all, a "hidden" field is a HTML input field with type="hidden."

This is useful in practice when we want to attach events or styles to hidden inputs. This sounds strange at first but I have found it used in a few different applications when migrating from Struts to Spring Web MVC.

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Affects: 3.0.2

Attachments:

• org.springframework.web.servlet-3.0.2.RELEASE-TDUFFEY.patch (8.98 kB)

Referenced from: commits 78c906c

[spring-projects-issues]

Tom Duffey commented

Patch to make HiddenInputTag extend AbstractHtmlInputElementTag and include all available HTML attributes in the form:hidden tag

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

Good point! Not all HTML input attributes make sense here (like with LabelTag) but at least the ones from AbstractHtmlElementTag should be supported (equivalent to LabelTag).

Fixed for 3.0.3; will be available in tonight's 3.0.3 snapshot. Feel free to give it an early try...

Juergen