What jsf component can render a div tag?

You can create a DIV component using the <h:panelGroup/>. By default, the <h:panelGroup/> will generate a SPAN in the HTML code.

However, if you specify layout="block", then the component will be a DIV in the generated HTML code.

<h:panelGroup layout="block"/>

In JSF 2.2 it's possible to use passthrough elements:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns:jsf="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf">
    ...
    <div jsf:id="id1" />
    ...
</html>

The requirement is to have at least one attribute in the element using jsf namespace.

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