title: Why use <g:textField /> in Grails?
body: <p>What is the reason to use g:textField in Grails if you're already familiar with standard HTML form tags?</p>
  
  <p>If I understand correctly the following two markup alternatives are equivalent:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input type="text" name="name" value="${params.name}" id="name" /&gt;
  &lt;g:textField name="name" value="${params.name}" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Are there any circumstances under which using g:textField would add value? Am I missing something?</p>