It seems this problem happens even in regular input fields, not just h:inputText, and it persists even when I switch the viewhandler to com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler, which suggests to me a facelets bug (I'm using the latest I could find, 1.1.9) or maybe a misconfiguration on my part (I'm apparently forgetting the undocumented <randomly-suck>false</randomly-suck> config item). Anyone who has actually gotten the RI to work on a less than trivial application care to tell me what versions and config they're using? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3972431#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...