This morning I received an email from a reader of one of my articles on the blog. The challenge in the email: I want to programmatically create an input field. Then I want to add a showpopup behavior to this input field – to have a popup display when the field is hovered over with the mouse. It turns out that the ShowPopupBehavior is not a UIComponent that you can simply add a child to another UIComponent. So could it be done and if so, how?

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