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Play Framework - how to change the label of a input when using form helpers?

If I use the form helper to get a loginForm at my site, how can I customize the input label? Of course, the label which is set is the name of the variable in my Java class. However, I want another label name than the variable name.

form

loginForm

At this point the only way to change it, I found, is to set up a completely new form builder. In this, I look if the element I want to illustrate is the element I want to set a new label and then set the other label. However, I think this is very much overdone.

Is there an easy variable I can add at the end of the @helper.input statement to change the label name?

@helper.input

I am using PlayFramework 2.6.

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Yes. You just need to add a '_label parameter in our input. For example:

'_label

@(userForm: Form[User])

@helper.form(action = routes.UsersController.save())
@helper.inputText(userForm("name"), '_label -> "Your name")
@helper.inputText(userForm("email"), '_label -> "Your E-mail")



Pay attention that it has a ' only at the start. This is documented here:

'

https://playframework.com/documentation/2.6.x/JavaFormHelpers

Another way to do that, if you need to highly customized the generate HTML is by handling HTML input creation yourself.

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