display html anchor tag in htmldatatable

[Kunjal Shah]

I am populating the HtmlDataTable dynamically through an ArrayList of String[] objects(rowData) where rowData is populated from database.

rowData[0] = { "11/10/2007", "<a href=http://www.yahoo.com>yahoo</a>", "some input text" }
rowData[1] = { "11/11/2007", "<a href=http://www.msn.com>msn</a>", "some text"}

Now I need to display the anchor tag in the Datatable column as HTML but is getting displayed as plain Text. This is the relevant portion of the code which populates the Datatable column

 
        dynamicDataTable = new HtmlDataTable();
        dynamicDataTable.setValueBinding("value", app.createValueBinding("#{DynamicViewBean.dynamicList}"));
        dynamicDataTable.setValueBinding("binding", app.createValueBinding("#{DynamicViewBean.dynamicDataTable}"));
 dynamicDataTable.setVar("dynamicItem");
.....
 
                UIColumn column  = new UIColumn();
            
      
            
                column.setId(createID());
                // Create header (optional) and add to column.
                HtmlOutputText header = new HtmlOutputText();
                header.setValue(dynamicHeaders.get(i));
                column.setHeader(header);
                header.setId(createID());    
  
                // Create output and add to column.
                HtmlOutputText output = new HtmlOutputText();
output.setValueBinding("value",app.createValueBinding("#{dynamicItem[" + i + "]}"));
                
                output.setId(createID());
                column.getChildren().add(output);
 
            }
   

Normally I would place the html anchor tag within verbatim tag of my UIColumn of HtmlDataTable.. but here i am generating the datatable dynamically and am not aware how to generate the verbatim text..

Any help/suggestions ?

[Kunjal Shah]

Got it working...

Had to set the Escape property of HtmlOutputText to false.. this displays html inside the datatable column..