I've been using custom css tabs (mostly stolen from the ones you can see at http://www.ubuntu-es.org/, with the ul + li + a well known technique you can see athttp://exploding-boy.com/images/cssmenus/menus.html) for a while. I don't like layout tables, and this technique allowed different images on mouse hovering and so on.
Well, my question is: can I change the standard html table rendering of rich:tabPanel (in a simple enough way)?