Default text (placeholder) in InputText component

Question

I want to display a default Informative text in JSF/Primefaces inputTe

Answer 1

Primefaces provides a placeholder attribute in its latest versions which you can use for p:inputText. Also, there is a p:watermark component which creates a JS based solution for legacy browser compatibility. So you don't definitely need to set a default value into the backing bean. Just use one of the following solutions:

For legacy browsers:

Also if using JSF 2.2, you can use its passthrough attributes. Adding xmlns:pt="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/passthrough" namespace to your page, you can achieve in the following way, both for JSF h:inputText and Primefaces p:inputText:

Or wrapping it into the tag with a TagHandler:

Which creates HTML 5 based input with placeholder attribute: