JavaServer Faces

Supported HTML 4.01 Attributes

The JSP actions in the JSF HTML tag library support most attributes that the HTML 4.01 specification declares for the corresponding HTML elements. The individual action descriptions include the supported HTML 4.01 attributes in the syntax section but not in the attributes table. These attributes are instead described in Table A-2. All these attributes are optional and can be set to static values or using any type of JSF EL expression.

Table A-2. Supported HTML 4.01 attributes

Attribute name	Java type	Description
accept	String	A comma-separated list of content types the server that processes the form handles correctly.
acceptcharset	String	Corresponds to the HTML accept-charset attribute (with a dash as a separator). A space- and/or comma-separated list of character encodings accepted by the server processing the form.
alt	String	Alternative text that may be used by a browser that can’t show the element (e.g., text-to-speech browser).
bgcolor	String	Deprecated. The background color for the document body or table cells.
border	String	The number of pixels for the frame around a table.
cellpadding	String	The amount of space between cell borders and the cell content, in pixels or a percentage of the space available.
cellspacing	String	The amount of space between cells and the table frame, in pixels or a percentage of the space available.
charset	String	The character encoding of the target resource.
coords	String	A comma-separated ...