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Append/Prepend text attributes

See original GitHub issue

According to this question at SO it would be nice to have attributes to append/prepend text.

Reasons:

Using inline text would destroy the idea of prototyping
Using th:remove="tag" would add html elements which aren’t necessary
Using Hello world isn’t good practice and would bloat the code unnecessarily

Ideas:

th:textappend="'Hello world'" would append text
th:textprepend="'Hello world'" would prepend text

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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danielfernandezcommented, Nov 3, 2016

I understand, and actually I’ve seen myself in this situation several times (working with Bootstrap buttons, for example). I’ve always solved this with inlining, but I understand why someone would prefer to do it in a prototype-friendly manner.

I’m adding this therefore to the Wishlist, but with a modification: the idea should be to have something more general than simply making text be a prefix or a suffix of the existing body of the tag. Adding two new attributes to the standard dialect just for having prefixes and/or prefixes seems a bit too much burden for features that would be a bit limited for solving this kind of scenarios.

The first idea that comes to my mind is to create some kind of syntax that might allow specifying which parts of the body should be replaced, maybe based on or related to the markup selector syntax, something like /text()[0]: ${whatever}.

However, this could get a bit in the way of Fragment Expressions… maybe using fragment expressions themselves could help, without the need to create new syntaxes?.. I don’t know. Or maybe we could be talking about adding functionality to th:replace (to select the specific part of the body that should be replaced) instead of th:text…

Also, from the standpoint of the engine, something like this would probably mean some deep changes in ProcessorTemplateHandler, because there is currently no command that can be given to structure handlers to provoke a complex substitution of body events like this…

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ultraqcommented, Nov 2, 2016

If this doesn’t end up on the to-do list for Thymeleaf, then this idea might be a really good custom dialect & processor for someone to make.

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