jsf 2 - Conditionally display pure HTML elements

Question

I would like to conditionally display the following elements:

<li>
  <h:link outcome="mypage" value="My Value" />
</li>

So my condition should determine if the <li> tag and all it's children would be displayed or not. AFAIK, I can't use <f:verbatim> because of the UIComponent inside the <li> tag (<h:link>).

Any ideas?

Answer 1

There's another reason to not use <f:verbatim>: it's deprecated in JSF 2.0.

Use <ui:fragment>. It's semantically more correct than a <h:panelGroup> (which by itself indeed renders nothing when no client side specific attributes are specified) and has also a bit less overhead.

<ui:fragment rendered="#{bean.show}">
    ...
</ui:fragment>

(note: due to some bug, Netbeans seems to jerk that this attribute isn't supported, but this is untrue, it's definitely supported)