Visualforce Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Reducing view state size 2 - HTML vs Visualforce components

Visualforce components contribute to the internal element of the view state. A page with a large number of components, or with a repeating element that contains a number of components, may consume a significant amount of the view state.

In this recipe we will create two Visualforce pages:

• The first will iterate a collection of opportunity records using an <apex:pageBlockTable /> repeater component with nested standard components for columns and input fields
• The second will iterate a collection of opportunity records using a regular HTML <table> element

We will then use the View State Inspector to examine the overall size and contents of the view state for each page to see the impact that ...