Core JavaServer Faces, Second Edition

Chapter 5. Data Tables

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• “The Data Table Tag—h:dataTable” on page 171

• “A Simple Table” on page 173

• “Headers, Footers, and Captions” on page 178

• “JSF Components” on page 182

• “Editing Table Cells” on page 186

• “Styles” on page 189

• “Database Tables” on page 191

• “Table Models” on page 197

• “Scrolling Techniques” on page 214

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Classic web applications deal extensively in tabular data. In the days of old, HTML tables were preferred for that task, in addition to acting as page layout managers. That latter task has, for the most part, been subsequently rendered to CSS, but displaying tabular data is still big business.

This chapter discusses the h:dataTable tag, a capable but limited component that lets you manipulate ...