Thymeleaf Interview Questions

Q: What is the use of Thymeleaf?
A: Thymeleaf is a Java XML/XHTML/HTML5 template engine that can work both in web (servlet-based) and non-web environments. It is better suited for serving XHTML/HTML5 at the view layer of MVC-based web applications, but it can process any XML file even in offline environments.

Q: What is spring boot starter Thymeleaf?
A: Thymeleaf is a Java library. It is an XML/XHTML/HTML5 template engine that is able to apply a set of transformations to template files in order to display data and/or text produced by your applications. Lets create a simple web application using Spring Boot, embedded Tomcat, Thymeleaf template engine and JPA.Apr

Q: What is Thymeleaf Template?
A: Thymeleaf is a modern server-side Java template engine for both web and standalone environments.

Q: What is dialect in Thymeleaf?
A: The most basic dialect interface, org.thymeleaf.dialect.IDialect , only tells Thymeleaf that a specific class is a dialect. But the engine will need to know what that dialect is capable of offering, and in order to declare that, the dialect class will implement one or several of a set of IDialect sub-interfaces.

Q: What is Thymeleaf fragment?
A: A Fragment is a part of a Template. Thymeleaf allows you to import fragments of this Template into another Template. There are many ways for you to identify a Fragment.

Q: how to use Spring request parameters with Thymeleaf?
A: Use th:object and th:field in the Thymeleaf template and @ModelAttribute in the controller to bind data to a Java object.