How to show nothing for rich:message if no message

[dkarr]

I have a panelGrid with columns="3". Each row has a label, an input field, and a rich:message. It appears that if there is no message, no component is rendered, so the label for the next row appears at the end of the previous row. I tried setting the "passedLabel" to " " or " ". In Firefox and IE, the latter shows up as " " in the browser. In Firefox, the former also shows up as " ". The former displays correctly (blank) in IE.

[sergeysmirnov]

In general, you can use h:panelGroup component to wrap rich:message. It will reserve the space inside the grid. "passedLabel" is not about reserving the space.

However, missing rich:message should not break the layout inside the h:panelGrid. What if you replace rich:message with h:message? Does it keep the layout better.

[dkarr]

Well, I don't understand it, but the layout problems seemed to go away even before I tried changing "rich:message" to "h:message". I'm not sure what, or if, I changed to make that happen. However, changing to "h:message" did fix the other problem, of it displaying " " when there were no messages.

[sergeysmirnov]

h:message is not an Ajax-enabled component. You need to use rich:message.

[dkarr]

Sigh. I don't get it. Now "rich:message" is working fine, not displaying " " but just blank.