>It would also help to be able to get the client ID from the XHTML/JSP.
>Perhaps an EL method of getting the current component or something. That way
>forceId would not be needed.
Perhaps you are looking for the clientId method? Try binding your UIComponent
to a backing bean
<h:inputFoo binding="#{b.comp}" />
Then, in javascript.
<h:outputText value="#{b.comp.clientId}" />
You can also call getClientId() on the component itself.
Dennis Byrne
>It would be a large change, but I think it would be nice.
>
>-Andrew
>
>
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>On 4/20/06, Martin Marinschek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Yes,
>>
>> I was told so too- then I went ahead and tried it out in the browsers.
>> Thanks to Microsoft, it doesn't work in IE. Firefox implements it,
>> though.
>>
>> We're back to using forceid.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On 4/19/06, Adam Winer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Colin,
>> >
>> > It's not incompatible with CSS; you just need to use a backslash
>> > to escape it:
>> >
>> > <style>
>> > div#foo { background-color:red}
>> > div#foo\:bar { background-color:green}
>> > </style>
>> >
>> > <div id="foo">Foo</div>
>> > <div id="foo:bar">Foo:Bar</div>
>> >
>> > -- Adam
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 4/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Is it mandated that component ids use colons, e.g. form:comp?
>> > >
>> > > We have had some problems with a CSS that was using id selectors to
>> apply
>> > > styles to particular elements. However, colon is not valid in a CSS id
>> > > selector. Is it possible to change the character that JSF uses in ids?
>> It
>> > > seems odd that JSF would do something that is incompatible with CSS.
>> > >
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