As far as I understand it, it should be addressed at JCP, isn't it? Since these guys define the standard for JSF.
Regards, Matthias > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 5:58 PM > To: MyFaces Discussion; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Sean Schofield > Subject: Re: Javascript getElementById Issues > > > There needs to be a better way than that. Every decent > JavaScript library > out there uses getElementById() to manipulate elements and > allow people to > build dynamic web apps. A "solution" that requires either > wrapping every > component usage in a proxy tag or overriding all of the > components isn't > tenable. People building dynamic web apps are not going to > adopt JSF with > those kinds of constraints imposed on them. > > I can see why there might be issues with components inside of > something > like a data grid. But this can be overcome by, for example, > taking the id > provided and adding an index using a well-defined scheme, so > that other > JavaScript code can know how to identify the relevant elements. > > -- > Martin Cooper > > > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Heath Borders wrote: > > > It really becomes a problem when you start using dataTables > > extensively in your applications. Since JSF is iterating over the > > content, you can't exactly specify an id for it (it would always be > > the same!). My suggestion is to use j4j's proxyId tag. It > basically > > allows you to define a clientId. > > > > You could also override all the default components to just > use their > > id as their clientId, but it would probably be quite an > annoyance to > > do. > > > > > > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:51:49 -0500, Sean Schofield > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A major stumbling block for me with JSF is how the implementations > >> all seem to "munge" the id attributes of my JSF tags. I'm > assuming > >> this helps with constructing the component tree and > mapping the posts > >> to the right components, but does it have to be this way? > >> > >> Both MyFaces and the RI change the id attribute. Couldn't > they just > >> change the name attribute? Isn't that the only thing that is sent > >> via POST? We have tons of javascript that use the getElementById > >> method and this would be a problem changing it. > >> > >> I know there are some workarounds with using special tags, > etc. but > >> that seems like a lot of trouble to avoid something that > is likely a > >> problem for many others. > >> > >> sean > >> > > > > > > -- > > -Heath Borders-Wing > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
