Richfaces+SEAM: good doc describing s:decorate tag functionality?

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EDIT: Would it be more elegant to tweak the GUI using CSS, or some other way?

Is there any good documentation (the official one only shows a basic example) for this tag?

I want to use it like this:

<s:decorate template="template.xhtml">
....richfaces UI...
</s:decorate>

in order to format a list of question-answer pairs without using rich tables or nested panels.

I get the gist of what it does, but I don't understand exactly how I can edit my own template.xhtml files and make the UI look as I want by using it.

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Caved in and gave up on the decorate tag. Used instead a h:panelGrid with two columns (one for questions, the other for the respective answers), styled with CSS. If there's a more elegant way, I'd like to hear any suggestions! - ACEG

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The s:decorate is basically the same as ui:decorate with some extra functionality like rendered

The ui:decorate can be explained as:

The UI Decorate tag is a templating tag that decorates content included from another Facelet. Any content outside of the UI Decorate tag will be displayed by the Facelets view handler. Any content within the decorate tag will be passed to the associated template as parameters or simply ignored. You can use nested ui:define tags to pass named content to the associated template. See ui:insert for more information.

For more info you can read here and here

To answer your update question. You should also use CSS to style the content of your template