Displaying the Data - Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide - page 153

visible : The component is actually available and rendered in the page but can be
hidden or displayed to the user with this property.
inlineStyle : The CSS styling is added to this property to change the visual
appearance of the component.
styleClass : This property takes the name of the CSS style block defined on the
page or from an external CSS file.
partialTriggers : The ID for the triggering components are added to this
property to trigger a parial refresh. The component to be refreshed will listen
to the corresponding triggering components ID listed and then will trigger an
update event.
partialSubmit : This property will be used for a navigaion component to
parially submit the form in a page for a refresh. This is used in combinaion
with parial refresh.
autoSubmit : When you leave the component whose autoSubmit value is true ,
the component sends a noiicaion to other components that are registered to
refresh themselves based on the ID provided in the partialTriggers property.
immediate : This property will skip All Validations phase in the lifecycle and
render the page for the af:commandButton component. Seing this property for
the af:inputText component will process and validate the data immediately in
the Apply Request Values phase. Topics related to ADF phases and lifecycle
are explained in the Chapter 7 , Working With Navigaion Flows .
Input components
Input components are the ones used to get the input from the user. The input can be anything
such as text, number, color, date, and file. Some of the common input components are
explained in the following secion.
af:form
af:form creates the HTML <form> element. This tag is used to pass the data in the
page to the server for processing. Some important atributes which are commonly used
when compared to other available atributes are defaultCommand , targetFrame , and
usesUpload . These are explained as follows:
defaultCommand : This property is used to provide a default acion for the form.
For example, if the form contains a Submit and a Cancel buton. Providing the ID
of the Submit buton will invoke the Submit buton as default.