Call a JSF method

Question

When user clicks the Testscript button, the method testscript should be called. But it calls a different method in my bean. Following is the sample code.

 <h:form id="myform">
<h:commandButton id="testScript" actionListener="# {ScriptedPolicyBean.testScript"} />
    <feat:Button onclick="document.getElementById("myForm:testScript")" />
     </h:form>                  

Please help

Answer 1

Doing onclick="getElementById" does nothing but simply gets an id. As it is a button and you do not say "return false;" your form is submitted by the feat button (if it has the type submit on the rendered page). Of course in this case the actionlistener of the other button is not called at all (as it has nothing to do with the form submit).

You should call the click method on the testScript button like this: onclick="document.getElementById('myForm:testScript').click();".

It would be nice to have a simple <input type="button" /> instead of the feat:button to be sure the submit is not called by that element.