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Summary

Tag name: <t:newspaperTable>
UIComponent class: org.apache.myfaces.custom.newspaper.HtmlNewspaperTable
Tag class: org.apache.myfaces.custom.newspaper.HtmlNewspaperTableTag
Component type: org.apache.myfaces.HtmlNewspaperTable
Component family: javax.faces.Data
Renderer type: org.apache.myfaces.HtmlNewspaperTable
Renderer class: org.apache.myfaces.custom.newspaper.HtmlNewspaperTableRenderer

Model for a table in multiple balanced columns. The newspaperTable tag allows a long, narrow table to be wrapped so that it becomes a short, wide table. This allows more information to be shown on a single screen. This is commonly used to present checkboxes for a long list of items. A data table for rendering long skinny tables as short wide table by wrapping the table over a specified number of columns. Unless otherwise specified, all attributes accept static values or EL expressions.

Obsolete

On May 17th, the functionality of the newspaperTable component was merged into t:dataTable (Extended DataTable) for the tomahawk-1.1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar. The newspaperTable component will be removed in the future. Please use t:dataTable instead.

Upgrade to t:dataTable by replacing all references to t:newspaperTable with t:dataTable.

Screen Shot

Newspaper Table

Usage

<t:newspaperTable newspaperColumns="3"  value="#{addressBB.states}" var="state">
    <f:facet name="spacer"><f:verbatim>&#160;</f:verbatim></f:facet>
    <h:column>
        <h:outputText value="#{state.abbr}"/>
    </h:column>
    <h:column>
        <h:outputText value="#{state.name}"/>
    </h:column>
</t:newspaperTable>

Instructions

see examples/newspaperTable.jsp for an example!

Supported Facets

Name Required Description
footer false
header false

Attributes

Name Type Supports EL? Description
align String Yes HTML: Specifies the horizontal alignment of this element. Deprecated in HTML 4.01.
bgcolor String Yes HTML: The background color of this element.
binding org.apache.myfaces.custom.newspaper.HtmlNewspaperTable Only EL Identifies a backing bean property (of type UIComponent or appropriate subclass) to bind " + "to this component instance. This value must be an EL expression.
bodyrows String Yes CSV of several row index to start (and end a previous) tbody element
border int Yes HTML: Specifies the width of the border of this element, in pixels. Deprecated in HTML 4.01.
captionClass String Yes A comma separated list of CSS class names to apply to all captions. If there are less classes than the number of rows, apply the same sequence of classes to the remaining captions, so the pattern is repeated. More than one class can be applied to a row by separating the classes with a space.
captionStyle String Yes Gets The CSS class to be applied to the Caption.
cellpadding String Yes HTML: Specifies the amount of empty space between the cell border and its contents. It can be either a pixel length or a percentage.
cellspacing String Yes HTML: Specifies the amount of space between the cells of the table. It can be either a pixel length or a percentage of available space.
columnClasses String Yes A comma separated list of CSS class names to apply to td elements in each column.
datafld String Yes Reserved for future use.
dataformatas String Yes Reserved for future use.
datasrc String Yes Reserved for future use.
dir String Yes HTML: The direction of text display, either 'ltr' (left-to-right) or 'rtl' (right-to-left).
first int Yes Defines the index of the first row to be displayed, starting from 0.
footerClass String Yes The CSS class to be applied to footer cells.
frame String Yes HTML: Controls what part of the frame that surrounds a table is visible. Values include: void, above, below, hsides, lhs, rhs, vsides, box, and border.
headerClass String Yes The CSS class to be applied to header cells.
id String Yes Get a string which uniquely identifies this UIComponent within the scope of the nearest ancestor NamingContainer component. The id is not necessarily unique across all components in the current view.
lang String Yes HTML: The base language of this document.
newspaperColumns int Yes Set the number of columns the table will be divided over. In other words, the number of columns to wrap the table over. Default: 1
newspaperOrientation String Yes The orientation of the newspaper columns in the newspaper table - "horizontal" or "vertical". Default: vertical
onclick String Yes HTML: Script to be invoked when the element is clicked.
ondblclick String Yes HTML: Script to be invoked when the element is double-clicked.
onkeydown String Yes HTML: Script to be invoked when a key is pressed down over this element.
onkeypress String Yes HTML: Script to be invoked when a key is pressed over this element.
onkeyup String Yes HTML: Script to be invoked when a key is released over this element.
onmousedown String Yes HTML: Script to be invoked when the pointing device is pressed over this element.
onmousemove String Yes HTML: Script to be invoked when the pointing device is moved while it is in this element.
onmouseout String Yes HTML: Script to be invoked when the pointing device is moves out of this element.
onmouseover String Yes HTML: Script to be invoked when the pointing device is moved into this element.
onmouseup String Yes HTML: Script to be invoked when the pointing device is released over this element.
rendered boolean Yes A boolean value that indicates whether this component should be rendered. Default value: true.
rowClasses String Yes A comma separated list of CSS class names to apply to td elements in each row.
rows int Yes Defines the maximum number of rows of data to be displayed.

Specify zero to display all rows from the "first" row to the end of available data.

rules String Yes HTML: Controls how rules are rendered between cells. Values include: none, groups, rows, cols, and all.
style String Yes HTML: CSS styling instructions.
styleClass String Yes The CSS class for this element. Corresponds to the HTML 'class' attribute.
summary String Yes HTML: Provides a summary of the contents of the table, for accessibility purposes.
title String Yes HTML: An advisory title for this element. Often used by the user agent as a tooltip.
value Object Yes An EL expression that specifies the data model that backs this table.

The value referenced by the EL expression can be of any type.

  • A value of type DataModel is used directly.
  • Array-like parameters of type array-of-Object, java.util.List, java.sql.ResultSet or javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.sql.Result are wrapped in a corresponding DataModel that knows how to iterate over the elements.
  • Other values are wrapped in a DataModel as a single row.

Note in particular that unordered collections, eg Set are not supported. Therefore if the value expression references such an object then the table will be considered to contain just one element - the collection itself.

var String No Defines the name of the request-scope variable that will hold the current row during iteration.

During rendering of child components of this UIData, the variable with this name can be read to learn what the "rowData" object for the row currently being rendered is.

This value must be a static value, ie an EL expression is not permitted.

width String Yes HTML: Specifies the desired width of the table, as a pixel length or a percentage of available space.