Thymeleaf

Thymeleaf

Developer(s)	Daniel Fernández
Stable release	1.1.3 / December 27, 2011; 2 months ago (2011-12-27)
Development status	Active
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Template Engine
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	www.thymeleaf.org
Standard(s)	XML, XHTML, HTML5

Thymeleaf is a Java XML/XHTML/HTML5 template engine that can work both in web (Servlet-based) and non-web environments. It is better suited for serving XHTML/HTML5 at the view layer of MVC-based web applications, but it can process any XML file even in offline environments.

In web applications Thymeleaf aims to be a complete substitute for JSP, and implements the concept of Natural Templates: template files that can be directly open in browsers and that still display correctly as web pages.

Thymeleaf is Open-Source Software, licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

1 Features
2 Example
3 See Also
4 References
5 External Links

Features

From the project's website^[1]:

Java template engine for XML, XHTML and HTML5.
Works both in web and non-web (offline) environments. No hard dependency on the Servlet API.
Based on modular feature sets called dialects.
- Dialect features (e.g.: evaluation, iteration, etc.) are applied by linking them to template's tags and/or attributes.
- Two dialects available out-of-the-box: Standard and SpringStandard (for Spring MVC apps, same syntax as Standard).
- Developers can extend and create custom dialects.
Several template modes:
- XML: validating against a DTD or not.
- XHTML 1.0 and 1.1: validating against standard DTDs or not.
- HTML5: both XML-formed code and legacy-based HTML5. Legacy non-XML code will be automatically cleaned and converted to XML form.
Full (and extensible) internationalization support.
Configurable, high performance parsed template caché that reduces input/output to the minimum.
Automatic DOCTYPE translations –from template DTD to result DTD– for (optional) validation of both template and result code.
Extremely extensible: can be used as a template engine framework if needed.
Complete documentation including several example applications.

Example

The following example produces an HTML5 table with rows for each item of a List<Product> variable called allProducts.

GeSHi Error: GeSHi could not find the language html5 (using path /usr/share/php-geshi/geshi/) (code 2)

You need to specify a language like this: <source lang="html4strict">...</source>

Supported languages for syntax highlighting:

abap, actionscript, actionscript3, ada, apache, applescript, apt_sources, asm, asp, autoit, avisynth, bash, basic4gl, bf, bibtex, blitzbasic, bnf, boo, c, c_mac, caddcl, cadlisp, cfdg, cfm, cil, cmake, cobol, cpp, cpp-qt, csharp, css, d, dcs, delphi, diff, div, dos, dot, eiffel, email, erlang, fo, fortran, freebasic, genero, gettext, glsl, gml, gnuplot, groovy, haskell, hq9plus, html4strict, idl, ini, inno, intercal, io, java, java5, javascript, kixtart, klonec, klonecpp, latex, lisp, locobasic, lolcode, lotusformulas, lotusscript, lscript, lsl2, lua, m68k, make, matlab, mirc, modula3, mpasm, mxml, mysql, nsis, oberon2, objc, ocaml, ocaml-brief, oobas, oracle11, oracle8, pascal, per, perl, php, php-brief, pic16, pixelbender, plsql, povray, powershell, progress, prolog, properties, providex, python, qbasic, rails, rebol, reg, robots, ruby, sas, scala, scheme, scilab, sdlbasic, smalltalk, smarty, sql, tcl, teraterm, text, thinbasic, tsql, typoscript, vb, vbnet, verilog, vhdl, vim, visualfoxpro, visualprolog, whitespace, whois, winbatch, xml, xorg_conf, xpp, z80

This piece of code includes:

Internationalization expressions: #{ ... }
Variable/model-attribute evaluation expressions: ${ ... }
Utility functions: #numbers.formatDecimal( ... )

Also, this fragment of (X)HTML code can be perfectly displayed by a browser as a prototype, without being executed at all: it is a natural template.

References

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Contents

Features

Example

See Also

References

External Links