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HTML5 markup and support in JSF

HTML5 markup and support in JSF

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HTML5 markup and support in JSF

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- [Instructor] JSF strives to provide as many Facelets components as there are HTML controls. But there are still gaps that need to be filled because raw HTML has a broader audience than JSF does. The JSF platform now allows you to simply combine basic HTML 5 markup along with standard expression language syntax and JSF-named attributes. In fact, you could build an entire application using just HTML 5 markup and expression language as glue code to buy values to the server side. JSF support for HTML 5 comes in two flavors. We have pass-through elements, PTEs, and pass-through attributes, PTAs. A way to think about these two is this. Pass-through elements are snippets added to HTML 5 components to make them feel like JSF components, while pass-through attributes are snippets added to JSF components to make them feel like HTML 5 components. Let's give some of these a go. We'll start with a pass-through elements, so an import for the pass-through element package is necessary. So, we'll go…

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