Lowell, Sorry for my bad answers today, I was doing too many things at the same time, and now that I re-read your use case I think I understand better what you want.
If I'm correct, you want to decorate a label with a star, and use some css class or id with that star and have the ability to turn the star off or on depending on a condition. Disregard the rest of the thread, because indeed Labels (or any component replacing their bodies) don't allow nested components. Your best choice is to use a behavior: label.add(new AbstractBehavior() { @Override public boolean isEnabled(Component component) { return myCondition(); } @Override public void onRendered(Component component) { Response response = component.getResponse(); response.write("<span id='foo' class='bar'>*</span>"); } }); The behavior writes directly to the response (after the component itself is rendered) and the visibility can be steered using isEnabled. Do note that if it wasn't for the fact that you're trying to decorate labels, you could have used Borders instead of a behavior. Not to say that this is better, just be aware of the alternative (in case you are annotating markupcontainers). Hope this helps, Eelco ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user