Re: Javascript getElementById Issues

[Travis Reeder]

Could we not come up with our own standard for myfaces for the time being?  And hopefully the JCP will follow suit or at least make for an easy transition.  This is such an essential thing these days especially with everyone seeing what Google is doing lately. Travis Matthias Wessendorf wrote: 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] -- Travis Reeder Ecommstats Web Analytics www.ecommstats.com