Question

I am using OpenFaces and have to be compatible with IE6. Up to now everything works more or less without problems.

However, I’ve run into a problem….

I’ve got a few buttons within a form. Save, Add, Export and Delete. Clicking on Export works fine with Firefox and IE8, exportToCsv() in the defined bean is invoked, so it must be a browser behaviour. Clicking on Export with IE6 invokes add() in the bean instead of exportToCsv().

Any idea?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

The <o:commandButton> component renders the <button> tag instead of <input> only if you specify the displayed button’s content in between <o:commandButton> and </o:commandButton>. If you just need to display plain text, then you don’t have to use this approach, and you can use the usual value attribute, which will result in rendering <input> tag instead of <button>, i.e. use:

<o:commandButton value="Submit"... /> 

instead of

<o:commandButton ...>Submit</o:commandButton>

The thing is that the latter form allows placing arbitrary HTML and thus requires the <button> tag.