Core JavaServer Faces, Second Edition

Chapter 4. Standard JSF Tags

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• “An Overview of the JSF Core Tags” on page 92

• “An Overview of the JSF HTML Tags” on page 94

• “Forms” on page 103

• “Text Fields and Text Areas” on page 108

• “Buttons and Links” on page 119

• “Selection Tags” on page 130

• “Messages” on page 157

• “Panels” on page 163

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Development of compelling JSF applications requires a good grasp of the JSF tag libraries—core and HTML—that represent a combined total of 45 tags. Because of the prominence of those tags in the JSF framework, this chapter and Chapter 5, “Data Tables,” provide in-depth coverage of tags, their attributes, and how you can best use them.

Even simple JSF pages use tags from both libraries. Many JSF pages have a structure ...