The ui example in Seam2 does this with divs and css. Basically, the idea of s:decorate is to allow you to design your own template for this <s:decorate template="decorateField.xhtml"> | <ui:define name="label">Age</ui:define> | <ui:define name="description">The age list is an array of primitives</ui:define> | <h:selectOneMenu value="#{person.age}"> | <s:selectItems value="#{ages}" var="age" label="#{age}" /> | <f:converter converterId="ageConverter" /> | </h:selectOneMenu> | </s:decorate> <div class="entry"> | <s:label styleClass="label #{invalid?'errors':''}"> | <ui:insert name="label"/> | <s:span styleClass="required" rendered="#{required}">*</s:span> | </s:label> | <span class="input #{invalid?'errors':''}"> | <s:validateAll> | <ui:insert/> | </s:validateAll> | </span> | <div> | <s:message styleClass="error errors"/> | </div> | <div class="description"><ui:insert name="description" /></div> | </div> View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4064253#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...