JSF HTML Tags

Html tags of JSF library can be divided into following categories

Category	Tag	Description
Inputs	inputText	Single-line text input control
	inputTextarea	Multiline text input control
	inputSecret	Password input control
	inputHidden	Hidden field
	inputFile	File input control
Outputs	outputText	Single line text output
	outputLabel	Label for another component for accessibility
	outputLink	HTML anchor
	outputScript	HTML element of the type "script" with type "text/javascript"
	outputStylesheet	TML element of the type "link" with type "text/css"
	outputFormat	Same as outputText, but formats compound messages
Commands	commandButton	Button: submit, reset or pushbutton
Commands	commandLink	Link that acts like pushbutton
Errors and messages	message	Displays most recent message from a component
Errors and messages	messages	Display all messages
Layouts	panelGrid	HTML table
Layouts	panelGroup	Two or more components that are laid out as one
Data table	dataTable	A feature-rich table control
Data table	Column	Column in a dataTable
Selections	selectBooleanCheckbox	Checkbox
	selectManyCheckbox	Set of checkboxes
	selectManyListbox	Multiselect listbox
	selectManyMenu	Multiselect menu
	selectOneListbox	Single-select listbox
	selectOneMenu	Single-select menu
	selectOneRadio	Set of radi buttons
Image	graphicImage	Displays an image
Form	form	HTML form. This tag has no attributes. All JSF form submissions are implemented with the POST method.

JSF Common Attributes

Three types of tag attributes are shared among multiple HTML component tags:

Basic attributes
HTML 4.0 Pass Through attributes
DHTML events attributes: HTML attributes that support scripting, such as onclick and onchange are called DHTML (dynamic HTML) event attributes. JSF supports DHTML event attributes for nearly all of the JSF HTML tags.

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