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Asked: 2026-05-27T14:58:13+00:00

I notice the Netbeans wizard to create a Facelets template client page gives the

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I notice the Netbeans wizard to create a Facelets template client page gives the option to have either html or ui:composition as the document root for the page.

For time out of mind I have always used the html option, then kept using it for consistency. Yet I realized that if I used ui:composition then I would save two levels of indentation for the body of my document.

The only reason to keep with html that I can remember is that I read somewhere that this format was hypothetically useful in an IDE somewhere. However I have never encountered it.

Is there any reason to keep using html as the document root?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Facelets is supposed to be “designer friendly”. The point of being able to have extra tags around the Facelets markup, and of features like the jsfc attribute or ui:remove is to let you write JSF pages that will render correctly when previewed in a web browser without having to actually run the application in a container. (E.g.: To make it easier to just tweak CSS for a single view.)

    If you have no need for this, you can safely leave the extra clutter out.

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