Since the JIRA updates are not reflected in the dev or user mailing list, I am posting here (I posted to the user list earlier)...
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-70 I submitted a patch to provide support for the new forceId attribute for HtmlInputText (the myfaces extended version - not the implementation version.) Its still missing some stuff as noted in the documentation (the guarantee of unique id's and support for stuff like UIData.) That will be coming shortly. I wanted to see if folks agreed with the approach I was taking before applying it to each of the components. I basically added what was being discussed on the list but its always good to see the actual code before making up one's mind. I will keep pushing on the two missing aspects mentioned above and will submit a patch to address them shortly. Then if everyone is in agreement, I will apply them to all of the other extended components (or at least to the ones where it makes sense to do so). In a nutshell, you can now have the following code: <h:form id="fooForm"> <h:inputText id="fooId" value="foo"/> <x:inputText id="barId" value="bar" forceId="true"/> </h:form> And it will produce the following HTML: <form id="fooForm" name="fooForm" method="post" ...> <input id="fooForm:fooId" name="fooForm:fooId" type="text" value="foo"/> <input id="barId" name="barId" type="text" value="bar"/> <input type="hidden" name="fooForm_SUBMIT" value="1"/> </form> Notice the second input text is "forced" to use the specified id of "barId" instead of the normal JSF version of "fooForm:barId". sean
