Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi,

I am new to jsf and trying to learn its features as I find it easy and fast for development purpose.I have been developing with jsf for past few weeks and got myself stuck with a problem, tired of which I had to take the forum's help :). My problem is that I need to show/hide h:panelGrid using any of the options below:

I tried putting the grid in the div and show/hide that div using javascript..works fine but the problem with this is, even when the div is hidden the components (h:inputText ) within the grid are submitted with the form, which should not be the case since its hidden (as with normal jsps).

I worked around with rendered attribute of the grid, and show/hide this grid using the backing bean method which is actually a valueChangeListener of h:selectOneMenu and set the boolean for the rendered to true/false as required, the grid is hide/shown correctly, but this isn't giving me any solution because when I submit the form with this grid shown on the view, its components values are still not submitted :( I dont know whats the reason behind this or what clue am I missing here. I dont know why when the grid is shown correclty, its components values are not submitted.. hence not validated too..

Any help will be highly appreciable.

Regards
srehman