Spring Allow form:options tag outside of form:select tag

The options tag can be useful, even if dynamic form binding is not utilized.

It would work, except that OptionsTag explicitly asks for a form:select parent element, even if it doesn't need it, as per the following line.

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/25d7f09f8dacbd51d1551b4d7fed1687b068ec11/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/tags/form/OptionsTag.java#L296

The solution: If you only move the aforementioned line to the inside of the else, it will still work as before, and allow to use an options tag with explicit item list.

Comment From: snicoll

OptionsTag hasn't moved in years and given the lack of interest for this feature, I am going to close this.