Can't execute Javascript in jsf page

Question

I\'m new to jsf. I have been trying to do a simple Javascript function with commandbutton. I tried many times but wasn\'t even able to do an alert message. This is part of my co

Answer 1

Apart from this lowercase/uppercase typo (which wouldn't cause the function not being called at all, by the way), your concrete problem is caused because this page is been designed as a template client using . Any content outside the tag is ignored during runtime by Facelets. This content is only useful for visual web designers, but once it's compiled and executed during runtime, it's ignored altogether. Instead the composition's content will be inserted in the master template, the commonLayout in your case.

You need to put the ...

Or, better, put the JS function in its own JS file in the /resources folder and reference it as follows:

    
    ...

Thanks to the target="head", it'll automatically be relocated into the HTML during building the view.

See also:

• How to include another XHTML in XHTML using JSF 2.0 Facelets?