[richfaces-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (RF-2977) Caption not rendered immediately after table element in rich:dataTable

Caption not rendered immediately after table element in rich:dataTable ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: RF-2977 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-2977 Project: RichFaces Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.2.0 Environment: OS: Windows XP Platform: JBoss AS 4.2.1.GA, Sun JDK 1.6.0_02 Reporter: Peter Haldbæk Assignee: Mikhail Vitenkov Fix For: 3.3.0 According to the HTML 4.01 specification the CAPTION element is only permitted immediately after the TABLE start tag. When using the rich:dataTable component together with the f:facet caption component a COLGROUP tag is inserted before the CAPTION tag making the html invalid. Consider the following snippet: <rich:dataTable id="list" var="region" value="#{regions.regions}"> <f:facet name="caption">Regions</f:facet> <rich:column> <f:facet name="header">Value</f:facet> <h:outputText value="#{region.value}" /> </rich:column> <rich:column> <f:facet name="header">Label</f:facet> <h:outputText value="#{region.label}" /> </rich:column> </rich:dataTable> Where the parameter 'regions' is a seam component containing a method getRegions returning a List of SelectItem (containing the methods getValue and getLabel). This will result in HTML like this: <table id="list" class="dr-table rich-table" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <colgroup span="2"/> <caption class="dr-table-caption rich-table-caption">Regions</caption> ... </table> which is invalid HTML. I have seen this in earlier versions (pre 3.2.0) of RichFaces as well.