Popup working with CommandButton but not with CommandLink

[Ashok Subramaniam]

Hi All,

I have this piece of code which has a button when clicked brings up a popup page. This works as desired.

UIColumn _editColumn = new UIColumn();
HtmlCommandExButton _editCommand = new HtmlCommandexButton();

_editCommand.setStyleClass("commandButton");
_editCommand.setId("cmdEdit" + num + type);

String _editActionListener = "#{hksHandler.editHksLP}";
String _editAction = "#{hksHandler.editHksLPOutcome}";

Class[] params = { ActionEvent.class };

MethodBinding _editActionBindingListener = application.createMethodBinding(_editActionListener,params);
MethodBinding _editActionBinding = application.createMethodBinding(_editAction,null);

_editCommand.setActionListener(_editActionBindingListener);
_editCommand.setAction(_editActionBinding);

_editCommand.setOnclick("setPress('popup','FRTR')");

_editColumn.getAttributes().put("width","20px");
_editColumn.getChildren().add(_editCommand);
_dataTable.getChildren().add(_editColumn);

However, I wish to have a CommandLink that does the same job. Here is the code for CommandLink

UIColumn _editColumn = new UIColumn();
HtmlCommandLink _editCommand = new HtmlCommandLink();
HtmlOutputText _editText = new HtmlOutputText();

_editText.setValue("edit");
_editCommand.getChildren().add(_editText);
_editCommand.setStyleClass("commandLink");
_editCommand.setId("cmdEdit" + num + type);

String _editActionListener = "#{hksHandler.editHksLP}";
String _editAction = "#{hksHandler.editHksLPOutcome}";

Class[] params = { ActionEvent.class };

MethodBinding _editActionBindingListener = application.createMethodBinding(_editActionListener,params);
MethodBinding _editActionBinding = application.createMethodBinding(_editAction,null);

_editCommand.setActionListener(_editActionBindingListener);
_editCommand.setAction(_editActionBinding);

_editCommand.setOnclick("setPress('popup','FRTR')");

_editColumn.getAttributes().put("width","20px");
_editColumn.getChildren().add(_editCommand);
_dataTable.getChildren().add(_editColumn);

This does not bring me a popup page although the setPress() is a jsp function which is used to bring the popup page.

Please advice how I can solve this issue.

Thanks,
Ashok.

[Venkat Sadasivam]

commandButton and commandLink are meant to submit form.

Use simple HTML code to invoke javascript like <input type="button" /> or <a href="javascript code" />