form:form tag should support the target attribute [SPR-4547]

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Peter Mularien opened SPR-4547 and commented

Filing as a bug because this is a valid attribute of the HTML FORM tag, and quite commonly used in applications which submit forms to IFRAMEs or new windows.

The form:form tag currently does not support the 'target' attribute as defined in the HTML 4.01 specification here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.3

This means that users desiring this functionality must resort to a kludgey Javascript-based workaround such as those discussed in the following two forum threads:
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=44044
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=46730

The lack of this tag does hamper the ability of a Spring-managed form to be part of some types of dynamic web applications. This really should be fixed, since the fix is simply to add a single attribute to FormTag.java and the TLD.

Thanks for listening!

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Affects: 2.5.2

3 votes, 2 watchers

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

Good point - I've added this for 2.5.3 now. (I hope you don't mind that I'm still technically considering this as an enhancement rather than a bug, raising the priority instead.)

This will be available in tonight's 2.5.3 snapshot (http://static.springframework.org/downloads/nightly/snapshot-download.php?project=SPR). Please give it a try...

Juergen