Trying to do it the seam way... I use this in my edit.xhtml | <s:div styleClass="edit_template_error_area" rendered="#{!empty facesContext.maximumSeverity}"> | <s:message styleClass="error" /> | </s:div> | This is great in that it does not render whenever I have no errors (so my lines are not padded out with blank lines). If, however, one line is error then this fires for all lines. Can I see if a certain field is in error as apposed to ANY field in error. I see that this decorate tag auto-magically knows which field is in error with as it renders the error message for the right field... Cheers. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4073991#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...