Question

I have a very simple JSF form:

<h:form id="simpleSearch">
    <h:inputText id="surname" value="#{myBean.surname}" required="true" />
    <h:commandLink>Search</h:commandLink>
</h:form>

When this page is rendered, the anchor that is generated looks like this (for brevity, I stripped out the generated onclick code):

Search<a href="#" onclick="..."></a>

As you can see, the “Search” is outside the anchor and the anchor body is empty. This is useless to me. I can’t use this.

Are there any suggestions/references/miracles out there to help me fix/understand what is going on here?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You are mixing HTML and JSF components. This generally doesn’t work well on JSPs. You want to put the ‘Search’ text in an h:outputText component:

<h:commandLink><h:outputText value="Search" /></h:commandLink>