validation messages to different parts of the page

[baran tamer]

hello i am using an email validation, the codes are below

  
 <h:outputText value="E-mail"/>
            <h:panelGroup>
			<font color="#FF0000"><h:message for="inEmail"></h:message></font>
            <h:inputText id="inEmail"  size="20" validator="#{FunctionBean.Emailvalidator}" required="true" value="#{someBean.email}" requiredMessage="*" />
            </h:panelGroup>

  
public void Emailvalidator(FacesContext context, UIComponent toValidate, Object value) {

		String TxtBox = (String) value;
		
		if (TxtBox.indexOf('@') == -1 ||TxtBox.indexOf('.') == -1) {
		 	((UIInput)toValidate).setValid(false);
			FacesMessage message = new FacesMessage("Invalid email address");
			context.addMessage(toValidate.getClientId(context), message);
		}
	}	

The first validation is obviously to avoid blank submissions and it should be "*" next to the inputtextbox , which works fine .
However i want to make a validation for the email string also , and i want to give the validation message somewhere else in the page. But the message also appears next to the text box.
How can i make it appear somewhere else in the page?. Thanks

[Bauke Scholtz]

Just give it another clientid or specify null as clientid and use <h:messages globalOnly="true">.

By the way, the HTML <font> tag is deprecated since 1998 (yes, that's 11 years ago!!). You should be using CSS for styling.

[baran tamer]

context.addMessage(null, message);

This one works, thanks a lot..

By the way can you suggest me a book or a tutorial so that i can understand it clearly what i am doing ?

[Bauke Scholtz]

The JSR252 JSF Specification document explains in detail why JSF is there, what it all provides and how it works.
The JSF API and JSF TLD documentation explains how to use the API and the tags.
The Sun Java EE tutorial part II chapter 10 covers JSF.
The "JSF: The Complete Reference" is a book I can recommend.