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Tags Bug, Facelets, ICEfaces, IE, JSF, QuirksMode
By default when you create a new ICEfaces Facelets project with a sample page, it codes the DOCTYPE directive directly. Unfortunately, this is stripped out during processing/rendering and does not appear in the final HTML for the page. When running IE without a suitable DOCTYPE directive, it switches into Quirks Mode and is not fully standards compliant, which may cause pages to display incorrectly.
the DOCTYPE can be added back by using the <ice:outputDeclaration> tag. To do this, you also need to add an <f:view> tag as you would in JSP mode, as in the following example :-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <f:view xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:ice="http://www.icesoft.com/icefaces/component"> <ice:outputDeclaration doctypeRoot="HTML" doctypePublic="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" doctypeSystem="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" /> <html> <head> ... </head> <body> ... </body> </html> </f:view>
The issue is discussed and solved in this ICEfaces forum post. Interestingly, a page created by ICEfaces for a JSP (non-facelet) project also uses the <ice:outputDeclaration> tag, presumably for the same reason.
Note that you cannot omit the <f:view> tag and add the xmlns namespace declarations to the <ice:outputDeclaration> tag as this fails – the <f:view> tag needs to be present.
Another post about Quirks mode and DOCTYPE switching, which also contains a useful Bookmarklet (Javascript link) which will tell you directly what mode a page is running in, may be found here.
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