Adjusting size of UIInput programmatically

[johndoe123]

Hi,

I want to adjust the size of the auto-generated filter-input of rich:datatable/rich:column.

So far I've got this code:

private void adjustFilterLength(FacesContext ctx)
 {
 UIComponent comp = ctx.getViewRoot();

 UIComponent datatable = findComponent(comp, "datatable");
 if (datatable == null)
 throw new FacesException("DATATABLE NOT FOUND");

 for (UIComponent kid : datatable.getChildren())
 {
 if (kid instanceof UIColumn)
 {
 UIInput filterValueInput = (UIInput) kid.getFacet("filterValueInput");
 if (filterValueInput != null)
 {
 System.out.println(filterValueInput.getClientId(ctx));
 filterValueInput.getAttributes().put("size", "3");
 }

 }
 }
 }

That does not work and I do not know why? Can't I put HTML-Attributes in there? It won't work with JSF attributes either (I tried setting the value attribute).

Can someone please provide me with a quick example. That'd be very nice indeed.

Kind regards,
John Doe

[ilya_shaikovsky]

why not to use rich-filter-input css definition?

[johndoe123]

I need to adjust the filter-length to the length of a certain string for each column programmatically and don't want to redefine the css on every roundtrip.

Can it be done?

[johndoe123]

Thanks, the CSS stuff helped to accomplish my goal.