Conditionally display pure HTML elements

Question

I would like to conditionally display the following elements:

Answer 1

There's another reason to not use : it's deprecated in JSF 2.0.

Use . It's semantically more correct than a (which by itself indeed renders nothing when no client side specific attributes are specified) and has also a bit less overhead.

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(note: due to some bug, Netbeans seems to jerk that this attribute isn't supported, but this is untrue, it's definitely supported)