Thymeleaf default Spring Boot application properties

1. What is Thymeleaf

Thymeleaf is a template engine for Java-based applications. It allows you to include special attributes and tags in HTML, XML or JavaScript files and handle dynamic data processing and rendering. Spring Boot uses auto-configuration to integrate the application with Thymeleaf engine and provides common property values that should work without changing in most cases/applications.

2. Thymeleaf Spring Boot default properties

Spring Boot provides default configuration for Thymeleaf engine. To change common values we need to override property in configuration file: application.properties or application.yml.

The default Thymeleaf properties has the following values:

1) Whether to enable template caching

Default value is true, set to false if you want templates to be automatically updated when modified.

spring.thymeleaf.cache=true

2) Whether to check that the template exists before rendering it

spring.thymeleaf.check-template=true

3) Whether to check that the templates location exists

spring.thymeleaf.check-template-location=true

4) Whether to enable Thymeleaf view resolution for Web frameworks

spring.thymeleaf.enabled=true

5) Enable the SpringEL compiler in SpringEL expressions.

spring.thymeleaf.enable-spring-el-compiler=false

6) Template files encoding.

spring.thymeleaf.encoding=UTF-8

7) Comma-separated list of view names (patterns allowed) that should be excluded from resolution.

spring.thymeleaf.excluded-view-names=

8) Template mode to be applied to templates. See also Thymeleaf's TemplateMode enum.

spring.thymeleaf.mode=HTML

9) Prefix that gets prepended to view names when building a URL.

spring.thymeleaf.prefix=classpath:/templates/

10) Comma-separated list of view names (patterns allowed) that should be the only ones executed in CHUNKED mode when a max chunk size is set.

spring.thymeleaf.reactive.chunked-mode-view-names=

11) Comma-separated list of view names (patterns allowed) that should be executed in FULL mode even if a max chunk size is set.

spring.thymeleaf.reactive.full-mode-view-names=

12) Maximum size of data buffers used for writing to the response.

spring.thymeleaf.reactive.max-chunk-size=0B

13) Media types supported by the view technology.

spring.thymeleaf.reactive.media-types=

14) Whether hidden form inputs acting as markers for checkboxes should be rendered before the checkbox element itself.

spring.thymeleaf.render-hidden-markers-before-checkboxes=false

15) Content-Type value written to HTTP responses.

spring.thymeleaf.servlet.content-type=text/html

16) Whether Thymeleaf should start writing partial output as soon as possible or buffer until template processing is finished.

spring.thymeleaf.servlet.produce-partial-output-while-processing=true

17) Suffix that gets appended to view names when building a URL.

spring.thymeleaf.suffix=.html

18) Order of the template resolver in the chain.

spring.thymeleaf.template-resolver-order=

19) Comma-separated list of view names (patterns allowed) that can be resolved.

spring.thymeleaf.view-names=