I am using a4j: 1.1 & Richfaces 3.1, JSF: 1.1
I am using Modal Panel in my jsp, and in the panel body, I am specifying actual markup along with some JSF components. But the mixed contents dont show up. Only markup related to component is displayed.
I found this on the demo page of the rich faces, and this example seems to work for you guys :
<rich:modalPanel id="mp" minHeight="200" minWidth="450"
 height="200" width="500" zindex="2000">
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:outputText value="Modal Panel Title" />
 </f:facet>
 <f:facet name="controls">
 <h:graphicImage value="/images/modal/close.png" style="cursor:pointer" onclick="Richfaces.hideModalPanel('mp')" />
 </f:facet>
 <p>Any JSF content might be inside the panel. In case of using
 Facelets or JSF 1.2, it might be any mixed content.</p>
 <p>The RichFaces modal panel is good with <a4j:include> to create
 a wizard like behavior.</p>
 <p>The model panel is open and closed from the javascript function
 on <i>Richfaces</i> object. The following code
 <a href="javascript:Richfaces.hideModalPanel('mp')">hide this panel</a>:
 Richfaces.hideModalPanel('mp')</p>
</rich:modalPanel>Is it b'cos, I am using JSF 1.1 ? If so, does f:verbatim would help ? I tried to wrap mixed content inside f:verbatim, but does not seem to work ? 
Any ideas ? 
THanks,