Hi! > why not render a empty panelGroup, if so declared in the jsf source? > IMO it is intuitive that there *is* a empty panel rendered in your example. > So I'll check the rendered attribute of the facet child and if none of the facets are going to be rendered I'll suppress the footer (header) at all.
--- Mario >> This might be complicated, if not impossible to do. >> I have to check all children of all footer facets to see if the row >> should be renderer or not. >> Think of the following (for sure untypical, just to get the point): >> >> <f:facet name="footer"> >> <h:panelGroup> >> <h:outputLabel for="input"> >> <h:outputText value="abc" rendered="false"/> >> </h:outputLabel> >> <h:inputText id="input" rendered="false"/> >> </h:panelGroup> >> </f:facet> >> >> We can say we take the rendered state of the first/root child of the >> facet tag, but this is not very intuitive, is it? >>
