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PrimeFaces Cookbook
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PrimeFaces Cookbook

by Mert Caliskan, Oleg Varaksin
January 2013
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Displaying checkboxes in SelectCheckboxMenu

SelectCheckboxMenu is a multiselect input component based on checkboxes in an overlay menu. Although it is an input component, it is presented to users as a menu so that it makes sense to handle SelectCheckboxMenu in this chapter.

In this recipe, we will implement a simple and an advanced SelectCheckboxMenu component. In the advanced case, we will learn about the built-in filtering feature. Selected items should be shown in a dialog when submitting.

How to do it...

Usage of SelectCheckboxMenu is the same as for SelectManyCheckbox. Checkbox items can be attached via several f:selectItem tags or one f:selectItems tag. In the following simple example, we will use f:selectItems to display colors:

<p:selectCheckboxMenu ...
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