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Posted to users@myfaces.apache.org by "Locke, Richard" <ri...@fairisaac.com> on 2006/05/11 16:20:25 UTC

t:outputLabel for attribute and forceId="true"

Hi All,

I am creating a simple form using label tags to help with accessibility.
I want to force the ids not to have the form prefixed so I can do more
client-side coding (CSS, DOM, JavaScript etc).

Here is a simple code fragment.
  <t:outputLabel for="txtInputText" id="lblInputText" value="Label text"
forceId="true"/>
  <t:inputText id="txtInputText" value="Input text" forceId="true"/>

When this code fragment is rendered to a browser, I get the following
HTML result:
  <label id="lblInputText" for="form:txtInputText">Label Text</label>
  <input id="txtInputText" name="txtInputText" type="text" value="Input
text" />

That's all fine except that the label's for attribute has the 'form:'
prefix. Why? I would not think that <t:outputLabel> tag would know
anything about the rest of the page.

If I swap the lines around like so:
  <t:inputText id="txtInputText" value="Input text" forceId="true"/>
  <t:outputLabel for="txtInputText" id="lblInputText" value="Label text"
forceId="true"/>

I get the following HTML result:
  <input id="txtInputText" name="txtInputText" type="text" value="Input
text" />
  <label id="lblInputText" for="txtInputText">Label Text</label>

That is how I want to label's for attribute to look like. Does anyone
know how I can get this result if the label is defined before the input
tag when forceId="true"?


Thanks in advance.

Rich
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Re: t:outputLabel for attribute and forceId="true"

Posted by Matthias Wessendorf <ma...@apache.org>.
Rich-

the ADF form component might be interesting to you too.
It is not a naming container (like h:form).

  <h:form id="foo">
   <!-- This inputText will have a rendered id of "foo:bar" -->
   <af:inputText id="bar"/>
  </h:form>

  <af:form id="foo2">
   <!-- This inputText will have a rendered id of just "bar2" -->
   <af:inputText id="bar2"/>
  </af:form>

If you are interested, I'd like to invite you to the adf related
mailing lists ;)

-Matthias


On 5/11/06, Locke, Richard <ri...@fairisaac.com> wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> Thanks for the very useful article. The solution was there on the first
> page!
> The <h:panelGroup> tag does the job perfectly.
>
> Rich
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Matthias Wessendorf
> Sent: 11 May 2006 16:02
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> Subject: Re: t:outputLabel for attribute and forceId="true"
>
> > That's all fine except that the label's for attribute has the 'form:'
> > prefix. Why? I would not think that <t:outputLabel> tag would know
> > anything about the rest of the page.
>
> That is a "problem" of JSF 1.1 spec
>
> <t:outputLabel /> (or h:outputlabe) BEFORE an input won't work
>
> since the label doesn't know the rest of the page
>
> see [1] for lot's of informations on that
>
> -Matthias
>
> [1] http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/06/09/jsf.html
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RE: t:outputLabel for attribute and forceId="true"

Posted by "Locke, Richard" <ri...@fairisaac.com>.
Hi Matthias,

Thanks for the very useful article. The solution was there on the first
page!
The <h:panelGroup> tag does the job perfectly.

Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: mwessendorf@gmail.com [mailto:mwessendorf@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Matthias Wessendorf
Sent: 11 May 2006 16:02
To: MyFaces Discussion
Subject: Re: t:outputLabel for attribute and forceId="true"

> That's all fine except that the label's for attribute has the 'form:'
> prefix. Why? I would not think that <t:outputLabel> tag would know 
> anything about the rest of the page.

That is a "problem" of JSF 1.1 spec

<t:outputLabel /> (or h:outputlabe) BEFORE an input won't work

since the label doesn't know the rest of the page

see [1] for lot's of informations on that

-Matthias

[1] http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/06/09/jsf.html
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Re: t:outputLabel for attribute and forceId="true"

Posted by Matthias Wessendorf <ma...@apache.org>.
> That's all fine except that the label's for attribute has the 'form:'
> prefix. Why? I would not think that <t:outputLabel> tag would know
> anything about the rest of the page.

That is a "problem" of JSF 1.1 spec

<t:outputLabel /> (or h:outputlabe) BEFORE an input won't work

since the label doesn't know the rest of the page

see [1] for lot's of informations on that

-Matthias

[1] http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/06/09/jsf.html