In JSF, you can use the <h:inputText /> tag to render a HTML input of type=”text”, text box. For example,
JSF tag…
<h:inputText />
Render this HTML code…
<input type="text" name="j_idt6:j_idt7" />
P.S The
nameattribute value is randomly generated by JSF.
JSF textbox example
A full JSF 2 example to render a textbox input field via <h:inputText /> tag.
1. Managed Bean
A simple managed bean, with an “userName” property.
package com.mkyong.form;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
import java.io.Serializable;
@ManagedBean
@SessionScoped
public class UserBean implements Serializable {
private String userName;
public String getUserName() {
return userName;
}
public void setUserName(String userName) {
this.userName = userName;
}
}
2. View Page
Two pages for the demonstration.
demo.xhtml – render a textbox via “h:inputText”, button via “h:commandButton”, if the button is clicked, textbox value will be submitted to the “userBean.userName’ property via setUserName() method, and forward to “user.xhtml”.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<h:body>
<h1>JSF 2 textbox example</h1>
<h:form>
<h:inputText value="#{userBean.userName}" />
<h:commandButton value="Submit" action="user" />
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>
user.xhtml – display the submitted textbox value via “h:outputText”
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<h:body>
<h1>JSF 2 textbox example</h1>
Submitted value : <h:outputText value="#{userBean.userName}" />
</h:body>
</html>
3. Demo
URL : http://localhost:8080/JavaServerFaces/
Display “demo.xhtml” page
If the button is clicked, display “user.xhtml” page, and the submitted textbox value
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