Issue with h:commandButton tag

[Durga Krishna]

Hi,

I got strucked with one issue.

I would like to display a button using h:CommandButton tag(but it should not be a submit or reset button.)

The code used in my application is as below :

   <h:commandButton id="generateReport" type="button" 
						value="GenerateReport" action="#{dashBoardBean.validateDates}">
	   </h:commandButton>

But the rendered html is like this :

   
<td><input id="DashboardForm:generateReport" type="submit" name="DashboardForm:generateReport" value="GenerateReport" /></td>
 

Please let me know how can I make type="button" instead of type="submit".

[Hany Shafik]

I think this is impossible to have an input whose type is button instead of submit. If you have the type attribute set to button It won't submit your form and therefore it won't execute the action you added. However you can simply use HTML tags instead of JSF tags.

[Sumeet Singh Aryan]

hi
you can even use the richfaces A4J command button.. use the Richfaces jar file for JSF

<%@ taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/a4j" prefix="a4j"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/rich" prefix="rich"%>

<a4j:commandButton  value="DISPLAY" action="#{Bean.methodName}" />

for live demo; please follow the following link

http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/commandButton.jsf?c=commandButton&tab=usage