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Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide

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Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Vaadin is a mature, open-source, and powerful Java framework used to build modern web applications in plain Java. Vaadin brings back the fun of programming UI interfaces to the web universe. No HTML, no CSS, no JavaScript, no XML. Vaadin lets you implement web user interfaces using an object oriented model, similar to desktop technologies such as Swing and AWT. Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide is an engaging guide that will teach you how to develop web applications in minutes. With this book, you will Develop useful applications and learn basics of Java web development. By the end of the book you will be able to build Java web applications that look fantastic. The book begins with simple examples using the most common Vaadin UI components and quickly move towards more complex applications as components are introduced chapter-by-chapter. Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide shows you how to use Eclipse, Netbeans, and Maven to create Vaadin projects. It then demonstrates how to use labels, text fields, buttons, and other input components. Once you get a grasp of the basic usage of Vaadin, the book explains Vaadin theory to prepare you for the rest of the trip that will enhance your knowledge of Vaadin UI components and customization techniques.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Customizing UI Components – Time to Theme it

The example applications you have developed so far look really cool thanks to the out-of-the-box styles in Vaadin. However, you can dress your applications with your own style! Would you like to have a panel with a modern shadowing look? What about hovering effects for table rows? You can do all these things and more with Vaadin. CSS, and Sass enable Vaadin developers to customize the way components look on the browser by defining rules that change the styles used by the HTML tags being rendered. This chapter will teach you the basics of CSS and Sass and will show you how to style UI components by creating new Vaadin themes.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Vaadin themes

  • CSS and Sass

  • Firebug and Chrome inspector

  • Styling labels

  • Styling text fields

  • Styling buttons

  • Styling panels

  • Styling menus

  • Styling tables

It's time to theme it! With no more preambles, let's go ahead and start characterizing Vaadin applications by giving them their...