if you can compute the style you want from the information you have in one of your managed beans, I believe you can also do one of the following:
<h:inputText ... style="#{myBean.myStyle}"/> or <h:inputText ... style="#{myBean.myStyle}"/> - Brendan -----Original Message----- From: Christian Bohn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:46 AM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: Re: (Validation) required="true" should change my css style of inputbox e.g. background:red Hi, why don't you simply define two inputfields and render only one like this: ... <t:inputText rendered="#{<<the EL-expression you used in your required-attribute or simply true or false}" required="true" styleClass="red" .... /> <t:inputText rendered="#{! <<the EL-expression you used in your required-attribute or simply true or false}" required="false" styleClass="normal" .... /> ... greetings Chrstian