IDAssignment

It's a Good Thing to ensure that there are IDs present the following JSF tags:

• anything that's a NamingContainer

  • PanelNavigationMenu

  • DataTable

  • NewspaperTable

  • Columns

  • Form

  • Tree

• elements that are "form fields"

  • any sort of input field

  • anything that is a button

• elements that send commands

Why? For portlets it is actually useful to not specify an ID on the NamingContainer so that it is automatically assigned using a dynamic namespace. That way you can have two instances of the same portlet on a page and the HTML ids will be different. --DaveBrondsema