JSF insert space between components in same <div>

Question

Good Evening, i want to know how to insert space between JSF components that lies in same <div> without using <h:outputText value="&#160;" /> i used it and in order to insert the desired space that i want i repeated these tag around 50 times! what are the alternative approaches to do that, these is the <div> :

<div
    style="width: 100%; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; background-color: gray">
    <h:outputText value="&#150;" />
    <h:outputLabel value="Notifications ">
        <h:graphicImage
            value="/resources/images/lunapic_136698680056094_2.gif" />
    </h:outputLabel>

    /// insert space here

    <h:outputLink id="lnk" value="#">
        <h:outputText value="Welcome,Islam"></h:outputText>
    </h:outputLink>

    <p:tooltip for="lnk">
        <p:graphicImage value="/resources/images/sofa.png" />
    </p:tooltip>

</div>

Answer 1

This is normally to be achieved using CSS, e.g. via the margin property. CSS works on HTML and JSF is in the context of the current question merely a HTML code generator. You should ignore the JSF part in the question and concentrate on the JSF-generated HTML output in order to achieve the requirement. You can see it by rightclick, View Source in a webbrowser. If the HTML needs some altering, then change the JSF source code in such way that it generates exactly the desired HTML.

E.g.

<h:outputLabel value="Notifications" style="margin-bottom: 100px;">

(please note that using style is a poor practice; CSS should preferably be declared in a .css file which you import via <h:outputStylesheet> and reference via styleClass attribute)

Again, this all has nothing to do with JSF. JSF is in the context of this question merely a HTML code generator. If you're brand new to basic HTML/CSS and thus doesn't exactly understand what JSF is producing, then I strongly recommend to take a JSF-pause and learn those basics first.

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Unrelated to the concrete problem, the <h:outputLabel> generates a HTML <label> element, but you don't seem to have any HTML input element associated with it. You're in essence abusing the label element for the wrong purpose. Understanding basic HTML and how to write semantic HTML and knowing what HTML output those JSF components exactly generate should push you far in the right direction. In this particular case, you should likely be using <h:outputText> instead.