Adding HTML5 placeholder attribute to spring 3.0 form input elements

Question

How do I add HTML5 placeholder attributes to Spring webmvc\'s form:input, form:password and form:textarea elements?

Answer 1

Regarding the new input types question - I had success by using spring bind and manually generating the input element. I'm using bootstrap so I already had a tag to wrap the control-group and apply the error message, but if you just want to inline it you can do the following.

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