Align dynamic manycheckbox

[eswaramoorthy1985]

Hi,

      I used <h:selectManyCheckbox> component.

If i use this component, all checkboxes displayed in single line(layout=pageDirection).

otherwise allcheckboxes displyed one by one(layout=lineDirection)

.

But i want display, first line three checkboxes and second line three checkboxes, third line three checkboxes and so on...

<h:selectManyCheckbox id="checkBoxesId"
                      value="#{CheckBox2.selectedChoices}"
                      rendered="#{CheckBox2.choices != null and not empty CheckBox2.choices}">
         <f:selectItems value="#{CheckBox2.choices}" />

 </h:selectManyCheckbox>

Bean : CheckBox2.java

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.faces.model.SelectItem;

public class CheckBox2
{    
    private String[] selectedChoices;
    private List<SelectItem> choices;

    public CheckBox2()
    {           
        choices = new ArrayList<SelectItem>();

        choices.add(new SelectItem("First"));
        choices.add(new SelectItem("Second"));
        choices.add(new SelectItem("Third"));
        choices.add(new SelectItem("Fourth"));
        choices.add(new SelectItem("Fifth"));
        choices.add(new SelectItem("Sixth"));
        choices.add(new SelectItem("Seventh"));
        choices.add(new SelectItem("Eight"));
        choices.add(new SelectItem("Nine"));               
    }

    public String[] getSelectedChoices(){        return selectedChoices;
    }

    public void setSelectedChoices(String[] selectedChoices){
        this.selectedChoices = selectedChoices;
    }

    public List<SelectItem> getChoices(){        return choices;
    }

    public void setChoices(List<SelectItem> choices){
        this.choices = choices;
    }       
}

Totally i have 9 checkboxes. I want display three check boxes perline,

Any other way to implement this

Help me.

Thanks in advance.

[lfryc]

Hi Eswara,

I'm afraid it would be not possible out of the box,

but you could develop your own component using JSF 2 Composite Component capability.

For aligning the components into columns you could use one of existing components, dataTable, panelGrid, etc.

The markup should not be complex here.