No, I can't think of a way to do this in JSF, not without calling the JSF component directly. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4069891#4069891 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4069891