Thymeleaf not displaying values from spring controller

Question

I am practising thymeleaf template engine for the first time. I have followed the tutorial and so on but I have no idea where I am going wrong.

My controller:

public String mainPage(Model model){
    model.addAttribute("data", "Hello Thymeleaf");  
    return "main";
}

and my html is as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html >
<html xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">

<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>

<body>
   <h1>th:text="${data}"</h1>
</body>
</html>

When I hit localhost it displays th:text="${data}" instead of Hello Thymeleaf

<h1>"${data}"</h1>

doesn't work either. View resolver config must be correct as it resolves main to main.html. I am using spring4 SpringTemplateEngine and spring4 thymeleaf view resolver.

thanks in advance

Faraj Farook · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-10 20:04:01Z

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You have to use th:text

 <h1 th:text="${data}"></h1>

or if you don't want to use the th:text attribute, then you have to use th:inline="text" and make the thymeleaf render the context inside the tag. But make sure you put the variable inside [[ and ]]

 <h1 th:inline="text">[[${data}]]</h1>

edited Apr 10, 2015 at 20:04

answered Apr 10, 2015 at 19:58

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webDeveloper Over a year ago

I didn't realised you and chrylis answered before my edit. thanks I had the th:text= on the wrong side of >

chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic- · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-10 20:00:10Z

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Thymeleaf isn't Velocity or Freemarker and doesn't replace expressions blindly. You need the expression in an appropriate tag attribute, such as

<h1 data-th-text="${data}" />

answered Apr 10, 2015 at 20:00

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chetank · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-10 19:58:32Z

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remove quotes to "${data}" and just use ${data}. I also agree with @Faraj Farook

answered Apr 10, 2015 at 19:58

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