The rowclick event of the rich:dataTable is not recognized as a valid server-side event during an ajax postback --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: RF-13165 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-13165 Project: RichFaces Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: component-tables Reporter: Brian Leathem Fix For: 5-Tracking An embedded _<a4j:ajax>_ tag in an extendedDataTable with the event rowclick_ does not work. The relevant code snippet: {code} <a4j:ajax event="rowclick" render="shippingEditForm" listener="#{shippingEdit.setId(shipping.id)}"/> {code} This *should* work. A google search quickly shows one how many people expect it to work. I dug in to find out why it doesn't work: When a HTML element triggers an ajax event, a check is performed on the server-side to see if the HTML element that triggered the event is the JSF component that is being decoded. This is done in this line of code: https://github.com/richfaces/richfaces/blob/master/framework/src/main/jav... {code} if (behaviorSource != null && behaviorSource.equals(clientId)) { ... {code} Before the request is sent to the server, we check if the originating element of an event is from a component, and "re-target" it if not (see:RF-12616, RF-12715). This is done in these lines of code: https://github.com/richfaces/richfaces/blob/master/framework/src/main/res... {code} if (this.id && sourceElement.id.indexOf(this.id) == 0) { // otherwise parent element is definitely not JSF component var suffix = sourceElement.id.substring(this.id.length); // extract suffix if (suffix.match(/^[a-zA-Z]*$/) && isRichFacesComponent(this)) { parentElement = this; return false; } } {code} This re-targeting works well, as for the most part elements DOM ids within components use the _#\{clientId}Qualifier_ syntax. However this breaks down with table rows, where the ":" separator is used. This is the same separator used to separate JSF component id's in the _clientId_. For example, a table with the _clilentId_ "_form:edt_" will have rows with DOM id "_myForm:edt:5:n_". So we need to fix the client-side re-targeting to work for table rows.