f:verbatim tag stops working when inside a dataTable

Question

I posted this to the PrimeFaces user forum but I think they are too busy to look into it, so I thought I would try here.

I have server-side string that has markup in

Answer 1

The tag is intented to hold plain text/HTML, not JSF components nor EL expressions. The tag is a leftover from JSF 1.0/1.1 ages when it was not possible to inline plain text/HTML between JSF components. The tag is deprecated in JSF2. You do not need it anymore.

Your concrete functional requirement is thus displaying some HTML string from a managed bean unescaped. For that you should use with escape="false".

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