Add an escape attribute to h:messages and h:message like in h:outputText

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I want to output an HTML link as part of my error message, but can't because the
HTML is escaped by h:messages. I searched Google for a workaround and found
many people have the same problem. There have even been tickets created against
JSF RI and MyFaces years ago.

https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=746
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-155

Environment

Operating System: All
Platform: All

Affected Versions

[2.0]

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Reported by rdelaplante

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@edburns said:
Move to unscheduled target milestone

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@edburns said:
Prepare to delete api subcomponent

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rogerk said:
Target 2.0 Rev A

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@edburns said:
cat2

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@edburns said:
rk

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@edburns said:
These are targeted at 2.1.

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sheetalv said:
triage

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@edburns said:
rogerk

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rogerk said:
triage

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rogerk said:
triage

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kellerapps said:
I understand the use case. I'm not convinced HTML is the best way to express this sort of thing. Maybe Message should be enriched to express link & emphasis.

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bleathem said:
RichFaces supports this attribute with it's rich:message component (see: http://docs.jboss.org/richfaces/latest_4_X/vdldoc/rich/message.html)

Primefaces also supports this attirbute in it's message tag:
http://blog.primefaces.org/?p=1894

It seems to me it's something the community is asking for, and should be rolled into the spec.

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cagatay_civici said:
I agree that this should be in spec, I've seen various posts in PrimeFaces forum and stackoverflow from users who are looking for this.

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rdelaplante said:
This isn't just for putting links in error messages, it can also be useful for rich error messages including bold and italic of some words.

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rdelaplante said:
This feature is implemented in OmniFaces:

http://showcase.omnifaces.org/components/messages

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@edburns said:
Set priority to baseline ahead of JSF 2.3 triage. Priorities will be assigned accurately after this exercise.

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This issue was imported from java.net JIRA JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-634

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Closing this as this issue is migrated to jakartaee/faces#634