Question

All example of h:datatable on the internet contain simple text as part of table header

example

<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="name"/>
</f:facet> 
<h:outputText value="#{item.name}"></h:outputText>
</h:column>

But I want something like this –

<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<input type="text" id="column1">
</f:facet> 
<h:outputText value="#{item.name}"></h:outputText>
</h:column>

It’s not rendering the column1 text-box as part of table header instead it’s making this text-box part of loop only.

Please suggest.

Answer 1

Like this way I haven’t got any problems. Try:

<h:column>
    <f:facet name="header">
        <h:inputText id="column1"/>
    </f:facet> 
    <h:outputText value="#{item.name}"></h:outputText>
</h:column>