In JSF 2.0 web application, “h:outputText” tag is the most common used tag to display plain text, and it doesn’t generate any extra HTML elements. See example…

1. Managed Bean

A managed bean, provide some text for demonstration.

import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;@ManagedBean(name="user")@SessionScopedpublic class UserBean{    public String text = "This is Text!";    public String htmlInput = "";        //getter and setter methods...}

2. View Page

Page with few “h:outputText” tags example.

JSF…

        
            
     
JSF 2.0 h:outputText Example
        
     
           
      
#{user.text}
               
      
       
               
      
       
               
      
       
               
      
       
     
     
    
    

Generate following HTML code…

             
JSF 2.0 h:outputText Example
         
    
            
     
This is Text!
                    
     
This is Text!
                
     
This is Text!
                
     
                
     
     
    
    

For case 1 and 2

In JSF 2.0, you don’t really need to use “h:outputText” tag, since you can achieve the same thing with direct value expression “#{user.text}”.

For case 3

If any of “styleClass”, “style”, “dir” or “lang” attributes are present, render the text and wrap it with “span” element.

For case 4 and 5

The “escape” attribute in “h:outputText” tag, is used to convert sensitive HTML and XML markup to the corresponds valid HTML character.

For example,

< convert to <        > convert to >        & convert to &

By default, “escape” attribute is set to true.

3. Demo

URL : http://localhost:8080/JavaServerFaces/