Hi!
My HtmlSelectManyCheckbox with "spread" layout and a styleClass set is
rendered as follows:
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr><td><input type="checkbox" name="Form:Frage_4" id="Form:Frage_4"
value="1" class="surveyInput" /> die zweite (Text) </td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="checkbox" name="Form:Frage_4" id="Form:Frage_4"
value="2" class="surveyInput" /> die dritte (datum) </td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
This does not comply to the "Standard Html RenderKit" specification of JSF
1.1 for the HtmlSelectManyCheckbox renderer:
"Render a "table" element. If the "styleClass" is specified, render the
value of the "styleClass" attribute as the value of the "class" attribute on
the "table" element. If the "style", "border" attributes are specified, pass
them thru. If the "layout" attribute is specified, and its value is
"pageDirection", render the children elements vertically, otherwise
horizontally, in the table. If any of the children are an instance of
SelectItemGroup, render them as a nested table. Each of the children are
ultimately rendererd as follows. Render a "label" element. Inside of the
"label", render an "input" element of "type" "checkbox" for each child
component. ..."
The class "surveyInput" (set to the HtmlSelectManyCheckbox component) is
rendered only as attribute in the <input> elements themselves, but not for
the table. Furthermore, the Tomahawk HtmlSelectManyCheckbox renderer doesn't
render a <label> element around each <input> element. Why did you choose a
different markup?
In contrast, the Tomahawk HtmlSelectOneRadio component's markup ("spread"
layout) does contain <label> elements as required, but shows the same
behaviour regarding the styleClass attribute of the component:
<table border="0"><tbody>
<tr><td><label><input type="radio" name="Form:Frage_2" checked="checked"
value="1" class="surveyInput" /> die zweite
(Texteingabe)</label> </td></tr>
<tr><td><label><input type="radio" name="Form:Frage_2" value="2"
class="surveyInput" /> die dritte (nur
Ganzzahlen)</label> </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
As Hans Bergsten describes in his JSF book, the <label> elements should also
specify their for attributes, which isn't the case for the code snippets
shown (using MyFaces Nightly 20051130).
The <label> element is my lifesaver in changing the format of the radio
button labels, and I really need them for the checkboxes, too. I don't know
how to change the format of the checkbox labels, because I can't change the
<table>, <tbody>, <tr> or <td> elements per CSS globally, and applying a
style to the HtmlPanelGrid containing the checkbox controls is not
sufficient in my case because there's a global definition for the <td>
element which a must not change ...!
Do you have an idea of how I could change the checkbox label format?
Regards,
Matthias
