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Primefaces Cookbook Second Edition

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Primefaces Cookbook Second Edition

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
PrimeFaces Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Defining droppable targets


Any component can be enhanced with the droppable behavior. Droppable components are targets for draggable ones. To enable the droppable functionality on any PrimeFaces component, we always need a component called droppable.

In this recipe, we will see how to define droppable targets and will learn a client-side callback onDrop.

How to do it…

A component can be made droppable by using p:droppable. The component ID must match the for attribute of p:droppable. If the for attribute is omitted, the parent component will be selected as a droppable target. We will take two h:panelGroup components and make them droppable and draggable, respectively. In addition, we will define a client-side callback that gets invoked when a draggable component is dropped. This can be accomplished by the onDrop attribute, which points to a JavaScript function.

<h:panelGroup id="drop" layout="block" styleClass="ui-widget-content"
  style="height:150px; width:300px;">
  <p class="ui...