I just recently started using Thymeleaf through one of my projects. I have seen few examples where th:text=${example} is being used in some places th:value=${example}.
I have gone through the Thymeleaf documentation but couldn't find anything explicitly citing the difference, nor did any question on SO.
Any help would be really appreciated! Thanks.
th:value is modification of html attribute value.
For button, input and option elements, the value attribute specifies the initial value of the elementth:text is used for tag body modification. div{background-color: lightblue; padding: 2px} // to highlight empty div<!--th code: <div th:value="${value}"/></div> -->
<br/>Result th:value div: <div value="sometext"/></div>
<!--th code: <form><input th:value="${value}"/></form>-->
<br/>Result th:value form: <form><input value="sometext"></form>
<!--th code: <div th:text="${value}"></div>
Same as: <div>[[${value}]]</div> -->
<br/>Result th:text div: <div>sometext</div>Here is docs of different Thymeleaf attributes features
th:name => This would be the name of the value that you will be either passing to another page (Exemplar scenario).
th:value => This would be the actual value that you would be passing. It could be obtained from a model or straight from the database explicitly.
<form th:action="@{confirm-pass-details.html}">
<button type="submit" th:name="event-id" th:value="${event.get().getEventid()}">Buy Passes</button>
</form>
