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Mastering JavaServer Faces 2.2

You're reading from   Mastering JavaServer Faces 2.2 Master the art of implementing user interfaces with JSF 2.2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782176466
Length 578 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Dynamic Access to JSF Application Data through Expression Language (EL 3.0) FREE CHAPTER 2. Communication in JSF 3. JSF Scopes – Lifespan and Use in Managed Beans Communication 4. JSF Configurations Using XML Files and Annotations – Part 1 5. JSF Configurations Using XML Files and Annotations – Part 2 6. Working with Tabular Data 7. JSF and AJAX 8. JSF 2.2 – HTML5 and Upload 9. JSF State Management 10. JSF Custom Components 11. JSF 2.2 Resource Library Contracts – Themes 12. Facelets Templating A. The JSF Life Cycle
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Removing the content with <ui:remove>

The <ui:remove> tag is used for removing the content. This tag is rarely used, but a perfect example of this is removing comments of type <!-- -->. You probably thought of something like the following line:

<!-- <h:outputText value="I am a comment!"/> -->

It doesn't have any side effects on the HTML rendered code. Well, that isn't true, because in the HTML source code, you will see something similar to the following screenshot:

Removing the content with <ui:remove>

But if we encapsulate this in <ui:remove>, then the preceding client side effect will not be produced anymore, which has the following code.

<ui:remove>
  <!-- <h:outputText value="I am a comment!"/> -->
</ui:remove>

The same effect will have the following code:

<ui:remove>
  <h:outputText value="I am a comment!"/>
</ui:remove>

In order to remove comments from the generated HTML code, you add the context parameter in...

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