Excel cell like JSF input component

[Ashruf Hussain]

Hi All,

I have a requirement where I need to come up with a feature to allow commenting on a given input text field.
It is exactly like a feature in Excel sheets, where commenting feature is built-in, the only difference here it is expected to
be a JSF component.

Any ideas would be greatly helpful.

Thank you,
Hussain

[Tim Holloway]

An Excel spreadsheet cell is considerably more complex than an HTML InputText field, which is what the basic JSF input field control is based on.

What you need is a compound control where there's a way to associate 2 (or more) data items with a single control - one data item for the contents, one for the comment. And a UI operation to enable/display the comments.

There's nothing like this in the core JSF tagset. Someone may have a extended tag that does this, but I don't know of any. You might have to create your own.