hi,
history doesn't mean, can be changed in newer versions of the spec, isn't it ?
Trinidad renders commandButtons as <button>...</button>, for instance.
-M
On 9/20/07, Roger Kitain <Roger.Kitain_at_sun.com> wrote:
> I think there was some history as to why we decided to go with "input"
> element
> over "button" element, but I don't recall why.
>
> Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
> > any reason, why the spec doesn't say, render as <button>blah</button> ?
> >
> > -M
> >
> > On 9/19/07, Ryan Lubke <Ryan.Lubke_at_sun.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Gurkan Erdogdu wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> When I want to add <h:commandButton type='button'>, renderer renders
> >>> it as submit button. Because of the following code in ButtonRenderer
> >>> encodeBegin method
> >>>
> >>> // Which button type (SUBMIT, RESET, or BUTTON) should we generate?
> >>> String type = (String) component.getAttributes().get("type");
> >>> String styleClass;
> >>> if (type == null || (!"reset".equals(type) &&
> >>> !"submit".equals(type))) {
> >>> type = "submit";
> >>> // This is needed in the decode method
> >>> component.getAttributes().put("type", type);
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Because type not reset and not submit always put submit type.
> >>>
> >>> Is it intentionally written like this?
> >>>
> >> Yes. The renderkit docs [1] clearly state the valid values for the type
> >> attribute.
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/1.2_MR1/docs/renderkitdocs/HTML_BASIC/javax.faces.Commandjavax.faces.Button.html
> >>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Gurkan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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