Leonardo, I changed <ui:include src=“/template/commonHeader.xhtml”/> to <ui:decorate template=“/template/commonHeader.xhtml”/> and I am now seeing the desired results.
Thank you. On Jul 1, 2014, at 1:53 PM, Leonardo Uribe <lu4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Use ui:decorate instead ui:include in the parts you need an ui:define > to be taken into account when the templates are resolved. > > regards, > > Leonardo Uribe > > 2014-07-01 9:29 GMT-05:00 Paul Spencer <p...@intekon.com>: >> 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 >>
