Views
Metronic uses Thymleaf as a template engine and Thymeleaf Layout Dialect to decorate a layout. Thymleaf is a modern server-side Java template engine for both web and standalone environments.
Thymeleaf's main goal is to bring elegant natural templates to your development workflow — HTML that can be correctly displayed in browsers and also work as static prototypes, allowing for stronger collaboration in development teams.
Base View
Metronic base view is
starterkit/src/main/resources/templates/layout/master.html
it contains all script and style imports. Each layout template should be wrapped with this view by
specifiying a decorator layout:decorate="~{layout/master}"
By default base view has two layout fragments offcanvas and content. You can provide a content fragment to render you page view and a offcanvas fragment to provide your offcanvas elements (modals, drawers, e.t.c.).
Specifying a Layout
You can easyly specify layout for your view by setting a layout decorator. All available layout options are
placed inside starterkit/src/main/resources/templates/layout.
<html lang="en" xmlns:layout="http://www.ultraq.net.nz/thymeleaf/layout"
layout:decorate="~{layout/system}">
...
</html>
Content of you page should be wrapped with element with attribute layout:fragment="content" it
will let a thymleaf layout dialect to render your page view code inside a specified layout.
<div layout:fragment="content">...</div>Global Partials
All global partials are located inside folder
starterkit/src/main/resources/templates/partials.
<div th:replace="partials/widgets/lists/_widget-26.html"></div>Pages
All page view are located in folder
starterkit/src/main/resources/templates/pages, then you can return these view from your
controller.
@Contoroller annotation. @GetMapping("/")
public String index(){
return "pages/dashboards/index";
}Code above specifies that by accessing a / route you will get a
page/dashboards/index.html view
file
