When I add a rich:menuGroup the menuItems defined in the group are also displayed above the menuGroup label.
I am using 3.0.1 (053107 snapshot).
<rich:toolBar> <rich:dropDownMenu value="Site"> <rich:menuItem value="Go To Center 5700 Web" action="#{appHandler.redirectToCenterWeb}"/> <rich:menuItem value="Go To SNL Tech Web" action="#{appHandler.redirectToTechWeb}"/> <rich:menuSeparator/> <rich:menuItem value="About The Action Request System" action="go_help_about"/> </rich:dropDownMenu> <rich:dropDownMenu value="ActionRequest"> <rich:menuItem value="Author Traveler" action="flowId:travelerview-flow"> </rich:menuItem> </rich:dropDownMenu> <rich:dropDownMenu value="Search"> <rich:menuItem value="Actel Programming" action="#{actelSearchHandler.init}"/> <rich:menuGroup id="componentAdditionGroup" value="Component Addition"> <rich:menuItem value="Search Action Request System" action="#{componentAdditionHandler.createSearch}"/> <rich:menuItem value="Search Oracle System Items" action="#{componentAdditionHandler.createItemSearch}"/> </rich:menuGroup> <rich:menuGroup id="documentControlGroup" value="Document Control"> <rich:menuItem value="Document Number" action="#{documentNumberSearchHandler.init}"></rich:menuItem> <rich:menuItem value="Document Release" action="#{documentReleaseSearchHandler.init}"></rich:menuItem> </rich:menuGroup> <rich:menuItem value="Engineering Change Order" action="#{changeOrderSearchHandler.init}"/> <rich:menuItem value="Failure Report" action="#{failureReportSearchHandler.init}"/> </rich:dropDownMenu> <rich:dropDownMenu value="Reports"> <rich:menuItem value="Reports Page" action="go_reports"/> <rich:menuItem value="Traveler Summary Report" action="#{travelerHandler.travelerSummaryReportViewAction}" target="_blank"/> </rich:dropDownMenu> <rich:dropDownMenu value="Help"> <rich:menuItem value="Online Help" onclick="javascript:openHelp('#{facesContext.externalContext.request.contextPath}/pages/help/ars.htm');"/> </rich:dropDownMenu> </rich:toolBar>
I solved this issue by installing both richfaces v.3.0.1.jar and ajax4jsf 1.1.1 (snapshot build 5/31/07).