JSF 2 textbox example

In JSF, you can use the <h:inputText /> tag to render a HTML input of type=”text”, text box. For example,

JSF tag…

<h:inputText />

Render this HTML code…

<input type="text" name="j_idt6:j_idt7" />

P.S The name attribute value is randomly generated by JSF.

JSF textbox example

A full JSF 2 example to render a textbox input field via <h:inputText /> tag.

1. Managed Bean

A simple managed bean, with an “userName” property.

package com.mkyong.form;
 
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
import java.io.Serializable;
 
@ManagedBean
@SessionScoped
public class UserBean implements Serializable {
 
	private String userName;
 
	public String getUserName() {
		return userName;
	}
 
	public void setUserName(String userName) {
		this.userName = userName;
	}
}

2. View Page

Two pages for the demonstration.

demo.xhtml – render a textbox via “h:inputText”, button via “h:commandButton”, if the button is clicked, textbox value will be submitted to the “userBean.userName’ property via setUserName() method, and forward to “user.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">
 
    <h:body>
    	<h1>JSF 2 textbox example</h1>
 
	  <h:form>
    		<h:inputText value="#{userBean.userName}" />
    		<h:commandButton value="Submit" action="user" />
    	  </h:form>
 
    </h:body>
</html>

user.xhtml – display the submitted textbox value via “h:outputText”

<?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">
 
    <h:body>
    	<h1>JSF 2 textbox example</h1>
 
	Submitted value : <h:outputText value="#{userBean.userName}" />
 
    </h:body>
</html>