JSF : Better way to check for existence of

Question

I have a form in which validation error message needs to be displayed below the input elements. The error needs to be highlighted by showing an error bubble around the error mes

Answer 1

The error needs to be highlighted by showing an error bubble around the error message ...

Just use with a styleclass wherein you define the desired style.

with

.error {
    border: 1px solid red;
    background: pink;
}

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...and the input text.

Just check if UIInput#isValid() is true. Since JSF 2.0 the current component is available by implicit EL variable #{component}.

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As to the actual question about checking if there's a message for a certain client ID, then you may find this answer interesting. But I don't think that this is applicable in your particular case.

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Update: as per the comments, you seem to want to style the containing component instead of the invididual components. In that case, do as follows: