How can I know the id of a JSF component so I can use in Javascript

Question

Problem: Sometimes you will want to access a component from javascript with getElementById, but id\'s are generated dynamically in JSF, so you

Answer 1

This is a small example of jsf. Now I will write javascript code to get the value of the above jsf component:

    var x = document.getElementById('myform:name').value; //here x will be of string type

   var y= parseInt(x,10); //here we converted x into Integer type and can do the 
                           //arithmetic operations as well