This seems to work well, though one must be careful to account for the resulting changes to the "id" attribute of all enclosed components. Note that some of these components may be rendered inaccessible to CSS # statements in IE, which does not recognize the \: escape sequence for CSS.
That's why I created forceId. IMO the JSF EG did not take into consideration all of the CSS and javascript that is not going to be generated by the component. That's a big problem with JSF 1.1 although it appears to be partially addressed in JSF 1.2. Search the archives for the older threads on forceId and also see the simple examples.
Jeff Bischoff Kenneth L Kurz & Associates, Inc.
Sean
