29.6. Common JSF Components

As mentioned in Section 29.4, JSF supports several tag libraries. In this section, we introduce several of the JSF HTML Tag Library’s elements and one element from the JSF Core Tag Library. Figure 29.13 summarizes elements discussed in this section.

Fig. 29.13. Commonly used JSF components.

JSF component	Description
h:form	Inserts an XHTML form element into a page.
h:commandButton	Displays a button that triggers an event when clicked. Typically, such a button is used to submit a form’s user input to the server for processing.
h:graphicImage	Displays an image (e.g., GIF and JPG).
h:inputText	Displays a text box in which the user can enter input.
h:outputLink	Displays a hyperlink.
h:panelGrid	Displays an XHTML table element.
h:selectOneMenu	Displays a drop-down list of choices from which the user can make a selection.
h:selectOneRadio	Displays a set of radio buttons.
f:selectItem	Specifies an item in an h:selectOneMenu or h:selectOneRadio (and other similar components).