Grails 2: A Quick-Start Guide

Of Templates and Ajax

On second thought, instead of cleaning up the list and show views, let’s just set them aside and create a new view that will replace them both. To do that, we’ll take advantage of Grails’ GSP templates.

GSP templates are simply chunks of GSP code in a file that begins with an underscore (_likethis.gsp). They provide an easy way to share common code across multiple pages (Grails’ use of the _form.gsp template for our create and edit views is a great example of this). You can include a template in a GSP page with the <g:render> tag, like this:

This line would render a template called _someTemplate.gsp in the same directory as the page that it is being called from. To render ...