You can drag the Inline Help component from
the Composite category of the Palette to the Visual Designer to provide short help information that appears inline on your pages. The Inline Help component is called
helpInline
in the JSP code, and the associated Java class in the page bean is HelpInline
.
You can click inside the component and start typing text. You can also resize the bounding box to limit the width of the text. The text wraps to the width of the box.
You can set the type
property in the Properties window to page
or field
to control the appearance of the text. Field help is intended to describe individual components on the page and is in a smaller font than page help, which describes the whole page or larger parts of it than individual components.
You can also set the style
property by using the Style Editor and the styleClass
property by using the styleClass Property Editor to change the appearance of the text.
You can also right-click the component and choose one of the following options:
text
property to a data provider or to an object that supplies its value so you can update the help text dynamically. For more information, see Bind to Data Dialog Box.text
property to other objects or bean properties that update this component's properties automatically.