Spring Thymeleaf + Textarea

Question

I created form with one input text and one textarea. The input text works fine, but textarea isn't even displayed:

<div id="news" th:fragment="admin_panel">
    <form method="POST" th:action="@{/addNews}" th:object="${news}" id="myform">
        Tytuł:
        <input type="text" th:field="*{title}"/>
        <input type="submit" value="Wstaw"/>
    </form>
    <textarea name="news_content" rows="20" cols="80" th:field="${news.content}" form="myform">
        ...
    </textarea>
</div>

When I delete the th:field the textarea is displayed and when I use th:value instead of th:field it's displayed too but doesn't save the written text to news.content (news.title is saved ok).

I don't have any idea... I read thymeleaf references but can't find answer, so please help good people!

Answer 1

My textarea input was working fine when i was saving some data through it(in clean state when i was performing a save to DB) but in case of edit form(where my textarea input was supposed to show the prefilled description from the model property book.description) was blank, the reason for that was the th:value attribute, i changed it to the th:field attribute and it started working as expected.

<textarea class="form-control" id="description" rows="5"
                              name="description"
                              placeholder="Description" th:field="${book.description}"
                              required="required"></textarea>