Chapter 6. Data Tables

Topics in This Chapter

• “The Data Table Tag—h:dataTable” on page 205

• “A Simple Table” on page 207

• “Headers, Footers, and Captions” on page 212

• “Styles” on page 215

• “JSF Components in Tables” on page 218

• “Editing Tables” on page 222

• “Database Tables” on page 228

• “Table Models” on page 232

• “Scrolling Techniques” on page 242

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 ...

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