[jsf] What jsf component can render a div tag?

Eg: h:inputText will render a "input type='text'". What jsf tag can render a "div" tag?

This question is related to jsf html

The answer is


Apart from the <h:panelGroup> component (which comes as a bit of a surprise to me), you could use a <f:verbatim> tag with the escape parameter set to false to generate any mark-up you want. For example:

<f:verbatim escape="true">
    <div id="blah"></div>
</f:verbatim>

Bear in mind it's a little less elegant than the panelGroup solution, as you have to generate this for both the start and end tags if you want to wrap any of your JSF code with the div tag.

Alternatively, all the major UI Frameworks have a div component tag, or you could write your own.


I think we can you use verbatim tag, as in this tag we use any of the HTML tags


In JSF 2.2 it's possible to use passthrough elements:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns:jsf="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf">
    ...
    <div jsf:id="id1" />
    ...
</html>

The requirement is to have at least one attribute in the element using jsf namespace.