Requirement – Disable the symbol of the required field of the label of inputtext
Solutions- add the following code in your css skin file
AFRequiredIcon:alias
{
    content:inhibit;
}
Note – It will disabled * icon entire application
Now if you want to hide * icon only for particular inputText
then add add the ‘styleClass’ attribute in inputText
<af:inputText label="First Name" id="it1" styleClass="requiredField" required="true"/>
In the css skin file, add a new class style as follows:
.requiredField span
{
  visibility: hidden;
}
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