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146 questions linked to/from When to use <ui:include>, tag files, composite components and/or custom components?
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How to reuse the same view in different projects? [duplicate]
I'm pretty new in JSF usage and yet don't know how to use JSF correctly in some cases. So, The problem: Reusing the same view in a different JSF-projects. I have three completely separated projects (...
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Avoid prepending id on custom component's inner elements [duplicate]
I am refactoring an existing codebase to use composite components. A lot of the existing logic uses the id on the element. As soon as I extract some html into a custom component and give it an id X, ...
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Dynamic generation of HTML based on an object type [duplicate]
I'm new to JSF so sorry if my question is trivial. I have to present a list of items of three different types: let's say books, software and courses with different metadata (attributes) and requiring ...
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Custom Controls in JSF [duplicate]
this question is propably easy to answer, but I really don't know what I should look for in that matter =) I try to explain it. Before I came to classic JSF I worked with a similar technology (based ...
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Is it possible to pass "props" in JSF custom components? [duplicate]
I recently landed on a project using JavaServer Faces for the FE side, with XHTML pages. There's a lot of duplicated code, and studying this technology I found out that is possible to create custom ...
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How to include another XHTML in XHTML using JSF 2.0 Facelets?
What is the most correct way to include another XHTML page in an XHTML page? I have been trying different ways, none of them are working.
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What is the need of JSF, when UI can be achieved with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and AngularJS
I was reading about JSF that it's a UI framework and provides some UI components. But how is it better or different from number of components that are available from jQueryUI, AngularJS, React, Vue.js,...
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How to add placeholder attribute to JSF input component?
Shouldn't this line of code render a inputtext field with the placeholder text "fill me" when using html5? <h:inputText placeholder="fill me" /> I do not see any placeholder text. I thought ...
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How to conditionally render plain HTML elements like <div>s?
I'm trying to implement a composite component which either displays the information details of a user in plain text or displays them through editable input texts fields if the desired details are ...
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How to ajax-refresh dynamic include content by navigation menu? (JSF SPA)
I'm just learning JSF 2 thanks to this site I had learned a lot in such a short time. My question is regarding how to implement a common layout to all my JSF 2 pages and have only the content part of ...
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How to create dynamic JSF form fields
I have found some similar questions like this one, however there are so many ways this can be done that it made me more confused. We are getting an XML file that we are reading. This XML contains ...
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What is the real conceptual difference between ui:decorate and ui:include?
It occurs ago me that ui:decorate is functionally the same as ui:include except that you can also pass ui:param and ui:define to the included file. Am I crazy? EDIT : Although in fact you can pass ...
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How to make a grid of JSF composite component?
I have lot's of outputLabel and inputText pairs in panelGrids <h:panelGrid columns="2"> <h:outputLabel value="label1" for="inputId1"/> <h:inputText id="inputId1/> <h:...
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Avoiding duplicate ids when reusing facelets compositions in the same naming container
I have a <ui:composition> that contains a few elements with explicit ids and some ajax events which reference these ids for partial processing/updating. I encapsulated this fragment of xhtml ...
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How to change head elements of a page when using ui:composition
I want to ask a question that i have a master template like this <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/...
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