How to set a hidden style to a spring:message tag - css

Question

I am using the spring:message tag to basically display a label over an input field.
Example:
<div class="col-md-3">
<spring:message code="referral.common.dateInterview"/><br>
<myui:calendar title="Max Date of Interview" path="maxDateInterview" bootstrapped="true" placeholder="${messages['common.uTo']}" inputCssClass="form-control" />
</div>
Which renders like this:
I want the message code to remain in the code, but hidden to the user like when you set any label to style="display:none". I don't know how to set this attribute on a spring message tag.
Is there a way to hide a spring message to the user? I don't want the user to see the label "Date of Interview" above the input field.

Answer 1

Spring's message tag doesn't provide attribute you need. All it does is rendering text retrieved from message bundle. If you want to hide it by display:none you should wrap it in some HTML tag and apply hiding style on this outer tag.
It could look like this:
<div class="col-md-3">
<div class="hidden">
<spring:message code="referral.common.dateInterview"/>
</div>
<myui:calendar title="Max Date of Interview" path="maxDateInterview" bootstrapped="true" placeholder="${messages['common.uTo']}" inputCssClass="form-control" />
</div>
CSS:
.hidden {
display: none;
}