Form onsubmit ignored when using h:commandLink

Question

Hi
I was looking for a way to catch all form submission in javascript by automatically setting a method to each form.onsubmit. But I ran into trouble with h:commandLink.
I tested using a simple example:
<h:form onsubmit="alert(123);">
<h:commandButton value="commandButton"/>
<h:commandLink value="commandLink"/>
</h:form>Using this code, clicking the commandButton will display and alert with 123. But when clicking the commandLink, the onsubmit is ignored. The commandLink submit the form by javascript code using the form.submit() method. I tested it out (with firefox) and it seem to be the normal behavior... the onsubmit event is not triggered, unliked at normal <input type="submit"/> (like the commandButton).
Looking at the javascript used the commandLink, I could see that it is completely ignoring the possibility that the user specified a onsubmit:
//com/sun/faces/sunjsf.js
function jsfcljs(f, pvp, t) {   
    apf(f, pvp);
    var ft = f.target;
    if (t) {
        f.target = t;
    f.submit();  
    f.target = ft;
    dpf(f);   
};Wouldn't it make more sense to verify if a onsubmit method was set on the form and execute it before submitting the form?
function jsfcljs(f, pvp, t) {   
    apf(f, pvp);
    var ft = f.target;
    if (t) {
        f.target = t;
     if (typeof(f.onsubmit) == "function") {
          var os = f.onsubmit();
          if (os != undefined && os == false) {
               return false
    f.submit();  
    f.target = ft;
    dpf(f);   
};The behavior of the commandLink would then match the JSF-API description:
Tag commandLink : "Render an HTML "a" anchor element that acts like a form submit button when clicked."

Answer 1

Wow! That worked when I removed the include directive. The only problem is that the include directive for the page is needed. When I use <c:import> or <jsp:include> it doesn't really include it correctly.
Is there some special way I'm supposed to import JSF pages?
Thanks again!