title: How to add an empty element in a JSF panelGrid?
body: <p>How do I add an empty element in a JSF panelGrid?</p>
  
  <p><em>This is my full table:</em></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;h:panelGrid columns="2"&gt;
      &lt;h:outputLabel value="row1"/&gt;
      &lt;h:outputLabel value="row2"/&gt;
  
      &lt;h:outputLabel value="row1"/&gt;
      &lt;h:outputLabel value="row2"/&gt;
  
      &lt;h:outputLabel value="row1"/&gt;
      &lt;h:outputLabel value="row2"/&gt;
  &lt;/h:panelGrid&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I add an empty element? What is the advised way? (adding an empty outputlabel? This does not feel correct.)</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;h:panelGrid columns="2"&gt;
      &lt;h:outputLabel value="row1"/&gt;
      &lt;h:outputLabel value="row2"/&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- This need to be emtpy --&gt;
      &lt;h:outputLabel value="row2"/&gt;
  
      &lt;h:outputLabel value="row1"/&gt;
      &lt;h:outputLabel value="row2"/&gt;
  &lt;/h:panelGrid&gt;
  </code></pre>