Lost RichFaces skin when rendering through rich:panel and a4j:include

Question

I have an h:selectOneMenu and an a4j:commandButton, the latter of which reRenders a component called content which looks like this:

<rich:panel id="content">
 <a4j:include viewId="#{MyBacking.viewId}" />
</rich:panel>

When the response is rendered and the component loads the content of the new JSP page, the tabs contained in that page use a skin that is different from the rest of the app (I think default blue).

I've noticed that after the included code is loaded, if I hit refresh, although this causes the bean to reissue the page contents, the skin is properly assigned.

My web xml says:

<context-param>
 <param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name>
 <param-value>glassX</param-value>
</context-param>

<context-param>
 <param-name>org.richfaces.CONTROL_SKINNING</param-name>
 <param-value>enable</param-value>
</context-param>

<context-param>
 <param-name>org.richfaces.CONTROL_SKINNING_CLASSES</param-name>
 <param-value>enable</param-value>
</context-param>

1. Is this effect because RichFaces is in some way not in control of the rendering of the tabs at this point?

2. How can I ensure the tabs conform to the skin? All the documentation is relating to overriding a skin, and I'd rather not have to override and skin with the skin that it should already have.

Thanks

Answer 1

I've just noticed I'd included a styleClass parameter - and because the jsp is now included didn't have access to the css facet reference.

Answer 2

I am not sure if it will solve your problem, however you can try to force Richfaces to avoid using the default skin by setting a specific web.xml parameter:

<context-param>
    <param-name>org.richfaces.LoadStyleStrategy</param-name>
    <param-value>ALL</param-value>
</context-param>

You can find more details about this property here.

edited, to set the correct param-value, as stated in the comments.