commandLink escaping characters in value

[holstead]

<a4j:commandLink value="<span>Click Me</span>" />

Any way to stop it from escaping the characters in the value? I've tried binding the value to a String variable in the bean, but its still displaying as:

Its showing as >span<Click Me>/span<

[wbossons]

What are you attempting to do by surrounding it with span? It may be better just to assign it an id and a related style or styleClass.

..\Wendy

[holstead]

Its a CSS stylization trick. A span needs to exist in the value (between <a href> and ).

so, any suggestions?

[s.de.kaper]

just do

<a4j:commandLink><span>Click Me</span></a4j:commandLink>

... but I really think it's a weird thing to do

[holstead]

<a4j:commandLink><span>Click Me</span></a4j:commandLink>

When I try this it prints the Click Me outside of the ...

It looks like this when I view source, the span is completely outside of the link tags, very strange:

<span>Click Me<span>

<a href="...."></a>

[holstead]

I got it to work:

<a4j:commandLink><f:verbatim><span>Click Me</f:verbatim></a4j:commandLink>

And why is it so strange to have a span inside of a link? You can put anything inside of a link: image, table, etc.... The span just allows for alittle more CSS control. In my case I make a very sleek looking button.