Discovering selectBooleanCheckbox and selectManyCheckbox

To provide skinning, selectBooleanCheckbox and selectManyCheckbox extend the default JSF components <h:selectBooleanCheckbox> and <h:selectManyCheckbox>, respectively.

How to do it…

Basic definitions for selectBooleanCheckbox and selectManyCheckbox would be as follows:

<p:selectBooleanCheckbox
  value="#{selectCheckboxBean.selectedValue}" />

<p:selectManyCheckbox 
  value="#{selectCheckboxBean.selectedCountries}">
  <f:selectItem itemLabel="Turkey" itemValue="Turkey" />
  <f:selectItem itemLabel="Germany" itemValue="Germany" />
  <f:selectItem itemLabel="Switzerland" itemValue="Switzerland" />
</p:selectManyCheckbox>

Adding labels to the checkbox is easy with the itemLabel attribute. The itemLabel attribute displays a label next to the checkbox:

<p:selectBooleanCheckbox 
  value="#{selectCheckboxBean...