Using MyFaces 2.2.3 The intent is for the contents of the <ui:define> variable page_title to appear both in the browser title bar and in the page’s content header area while using a common template across many pages. The content header area is displayed in the <body> of the page and is there to give each page a consistent look.
In the example below, “My Page1 Title” appears as the title of the page1.jsp, but not in the header content of the page. Why does the <ui:define> variable page_title evaluate to blank/null in includes pages? Is there a better way to accomplish the intended behavior? *** * Page1.xhtml *** <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"; xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"; xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets";> <h:body> <ui:composition template="/template/commonLayout.xhtml"> <ui:define name=“page_title”>My Page1 Title</ui:define> <ui:define name=“content"> <f:view transient=“true”> <h1>Page 1</h1> </f:view> </ui:define> </ui:composition> </h:body> </html> *** * commonLayout.xhtml *** <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"; xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets";> <h:head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <h:outputStylesheet library="css" name="default.css" /> <h:outputStylesheet library="css" name="cssLayout.css" /> <title><ui:insert name="page_title" /></title> </h:head> <h:body> <ui:debug /> <div id="page"> <div id="top"> <ui:insert name="header"> <ui:include src="/template/commonHeader.xhtml"/> </ui:insert> </div> <div> <div id="left"> <ui:insert name="menu"> <ui:include src="/template/commonMenuLeft.xhtml" /> </ui:insert> </div> <div id="content"> <ui:insert name="content"> <ui:include src="/template/commonContent.xhtml"/> </ui:insert> </div> <ui:debug></ui:debug> </div> <div id="bottom"> <ui:insert name="footer"> <ui:include src="/template/commonFooter.xhtml" /> </ui:insert> </div> </div> </h:body> </html> *** * commonHeader.xhtml *** <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets";> <body> <ui:component> <h1 style="text-align: center; color: black; background-color: white;"> <ui:insert name="page_title" /> </h1> </ui:component> </body> </html> Paul Spencer
