How to get red required field indicator to show when using inline edit support?

Question

Question

Is there a native way (meaning without doing js and CSS hacks) to get the required field bar to show up when using inline edit support? Normally when using an inputField I could add required="true" but inline edit support has us use an outputField (although in theory I'd expect this to determine automatically if a field was required or not)

Example

<apex:pageBlock>
  <apex:pageBlockSection columns="1">
    <apex:outputField value="{!account.name}">
      <apex:inlineEditSupport event="ondblclick"/>
    </apex:outputField>
  </apex:pageBlockSection>
</apex:pageBlock>

Screenshot when using Inline Edit Support

Screenshot on standard detail page

Answer 1

Not sure about outputField but for selectList and generally custom fileds this is what worked best for me with minimum "hacks"

        <apex:pageBlockSectionItem >  
             <apex:outputLabel value="Month" for="monthList"/>
             <apex:outputPanel styleClass="requiredInput"  layout="block">                 
                <apex:outputPanel styleClass="requiredBlock" layout="block"/>               
                <apex:SelectList size="1" id="monthList"  value="{!month}" >
                   <apex:selectOptions value="{!monthes}" />
                </apex:SelectList>     
             </apex:outputPanel>
        </apex:pageBlockSectionItem>

Answer 2

I found this from http://boards.developerforce.com/t5/General-Development/How-to-find-Required-Fields-For-An-Object/m-p/284873#M55286 that shows how to determine if a field is " Required":

//put all the fields in a map to note which ones are "required"
public map<string,boolean> requiredFieldsMap {get;set;}

Schema.DescribeSObjectResult r = systemObjectType.getDescribe();
Map<String,Schema.SObjectField> M = r.fields.getMap();

requiredFieldsMap=new map<string,boolean>();

for(String fieldName : M.keySet()){ 
    Schema.SObjectField field = M.get(fieldName);
    Schema.DescribeFieldResult F = field.getDescribe();

    //A nillable field can have empty content. 
    //A isNillable Boolean non-nillable field must have a value 
        //for the object to be created or saved. 
    // if F.isNillable() is false then field is mandatory

    requiredFieldsMap.put(fieldName,F.isNillable());
}

Then, in your Visualforce page, you need to be clever in how you represent the displayed fields. You could do something like this:

<apex:outputText style="background-color:red;" rendered="{!NOT(requiredFieldsMap.get('Custom_Field__c'))}">&nbsp;&nbsp;</apex:outputText>

Note: you might get a better effect by changing the CSS style for the above apex:outputText. (Try setting the width:5px; , etc.)