Which version of facelets are you using? There were some fixes in facelets code for s:decorate. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4083659#4083659 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4083659