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Templating

Templating - Java EE Tutorial

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Templating

- [Man] Within JSF, we can use the facelets tag library, to introduce templating within our application. This is useful because we can avoid repeating common markup within every page. So, to get started, just right click on the web app folder, and then go to new, other, and then here we're going to create a new XHTML page, we're going to name that page template, and then we'll just hit next, and instead of picking the blank facelet page, we'll select the common facelet page to build out our template, and then just hit finish. You'll notice we're using the older DOCTYPE, so let's go grab out HTML5 DOCTYPE, and we're going to paste that at the top of our file, okay, and now let's take a closer look at our template. So, if we inspect the template, you're going to see these insert tags, that are facelets tags, and basically this is saying that you can define a page title, and insert the content within the template from a…

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