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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

Introducing Firebug and Chrome inspector


At this point, you understand that your Vaadin UI components are rendered as HTML elements. Each element has a class attribute. If you know the value for this property, you can add Sass rules to it. Nice. However, how to know the value of this property? Most web browsers include developer tools to inspect the HTML being rendered. We are going to take a fast look at how to inspect HTML in Firefox and Chrome.

Firebug is a Firefox extension that allows you to edit, debug, and watch HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in any web page. You can install Firebug from http://getfirebug.com.

Chrome DevTools is the Chrome counterpart of Firebug. Chrome DevTools is bundled in Chrome.

Note

Internet Explorer ships with Developer Tools. However, we are not covering Developer Tools here. You can activate Developer Tools by pressing F12.