SelectBooleanCheckbox receives focus without mouseover

Question

I have a weird problem with jsf components (h:inputFile & h:selectBooleanCheckbox).

Both components receive focus, even when my mouse is somewhere else on the page. Here is the code:

<h:form id="logoUpload" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <div>      
   <h:outputLabel rendered="true">
      <h:inputFile id="companyLogo" label="file" value="#{fileHandlerBean.part}" >
       <f:validator validatorId="FileUploadValidator" />
      </h:inputFile>
   </h:outputLabel>
 </div>

<div class="clear" />

<h:outputLabel rendered="true">
 <div>
   <div style="width: 5%">
    <h:selectBooleanCheckbox id="acceptToULogo" value="#{companyEditController.confirmToU}">
     <p:ajax event="change" update="buttonLogo" />
    </h:selectBooleanCheckbox>
 </div>

  <div style="width: 95%">
  <h:outputText value="Some Text " /> 
  </div>
 <br />

<h:commandButton id="buttonLogo" styleClass="formbutton" value="Upload"
      action="#{companyEditController.companyLogoUpload()}" 
      actionListener="#{fileHandlerBean.uploadCompanyLogo()}" 
      disabled="#{!companyEditController.confirmToU}"/>    
 </div>
</h:outputLabel>
</h:form>

If I move the mouse over the h:outputText the checkbox receives focus. I had the same problem with the h:inputFile tag. I solved it by surrounding it with a h:outputLabel tag, but unfortunately it doesn´t workd with the selectBooleanCheckbox.

Did somebody have the same problem in the past and knows a solution?

Related: http://stackoverflow.com/q/17544141 You was most likely reading bad JSF tutorials. — BalusC, Aug 01 '16 at 06:01

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 01 '16 at 06:03

This is because everything is wrapped in the h:outputLabel tag. This outputLable is rendered as a plain label html element.

You can see form the W3C specification that anything inside the label will toggle the control

The element does not render as anything special for the user. However, it provides a usability improvement for mouse users, because if the user clicks on the text within the element, it toggles the control

To fix this, you need to replace the h:output label tag using a h:panelGroup layout="block" which renders a <div>:

<h:panelGroup layout="block" rendered="true">
 <div>
   <div style="width: 5%">
    <h:selectBooleanCheckbox id="acceptToULogo" >
     <p:ajax event="change" update="buttonLogo" />
    </h:selectBooleanCheckbox>
 </div>

  <div style="width: 95%">
  <h:outputText value="Some Text " /> 
  </div>
 <br />

<h:commandButton id="buttonLogo" styleClass="formbutton" value="Upload"/>    
 </div>
</h:panelGroup>

good suggestion with the panelGroup Balus. This eliminates the extra markup of the html table — Tony Scialo, Aug 01 '16 at 14:57

SelectBooleanCheckbox receives focus without mouseover

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