If you use the extended datatable, it puts the current rowIndex on the request.
You could then make your EL statement like "rowIndex == 0". However,
this is supposing that you aren't paging your data. It gets a little
more complicated in this case, but its still doable.
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:46:46 -0600, Jonathan Eric Miller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is an easy way to make it so that the fields in
> the first row of a h:dataTable are required, while making the remaining rows
> not required?
>
> What I'm wondering is if something similar to the following is possible.
> Note, the "firstRow == true" is just pseudo-code for what I want to do. If I
> remember correctly, JSTL has something like this.
>
> <h:dataTable id="references" value="#{applicationHandler.references}"
> var="reference">
> <h:column>
> <h:inputText id="name" required="#{firstRow == true}"
> value="#{reference.name}"/>
> </h:column>
> </h:dataTable>
>
> Failing this, I was thinking I could just have two h:dataTables, one after
> the other, with the first table only containing the first row. However, if
> the column widths are variable, then the columns won't line up correctly.
>
> Jon
>
>
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