it's a pure jsf thing but I'll answer anyway... you just have to return an empty string as the value of your backingbean action method View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4148035#4148035 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4148035