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Asked: 2026-05-15T23:50:04+00:00

I have this login.xhtml JSF page: <?xml version=1.0?> <jsp:root version=2.0 xmlns:jsp=http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page xmlns:f=http://java.sun.com/jsf/core xmlns:h=http://java.sun.com/jsf/html> <jsp:directive.page

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I have this login.xhtml JSF page:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<jsp:root version="2.0"
  xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
  xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
  xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html"/>
<f:view>
  <h:inputText value="#{userBean.id}"/>
</f:view>
</jsp:root>

Output HTML contains properly rendered <input> tag, but <jsp:*> are left untouched. Seems that JSF just didn’t understand them. Why?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your’re using JSF 2.0 and the file has a *.xhtml extension. You’re actually using Facelets as view technology, not JSP. Facelets is the successor of JSP. You cannot mix Facelets with JSP tags. Get rid of all <jsp:> tags, they are worthless and ain’t ever going to work in a Facelets page. The JSP tags are only parsed when you name the file *.jsp which will be picked up by servletcontainer’s builtin JspServlet. But since you’re using JSF 2.0 with Facelets, you already have the FacesServlet for the job. Forget JSP 🙂

    Here’s how your XHTML file should look like:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
    <h:head>
        <title>Title</title>
    </h:head>
    <h:body>
        <h:inputText value="#{userBean.id}"/>
    </h:body>
</html>

    Note that you’d like to put that input component in a <h:form>, but I bet that it’ll be just a test example.

    Also note that <!DOCTYPE html> is perfectly legit here. You don’t need the XHTML doctype. Facelets will take care about setting the right text/html content type, UTF-8 character encoding and so on.

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