Passing data into html from Java via Spring

Question

Is there a way to pass a String value from my Spring controller class to my HTML? In various "hello world" examples, they say to use

ModelAndView model = new ModelAndView("htmlPageName");
model.addAttribute("variableName", "someValue");

in the controller and

${variableName}

in the HTML. But when I load the page it shows literally ${variableName} instead of "someValue"

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

If you use Thymeleaf

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

You wrote: {$variableName} instead of ${variableName}