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Primefaces Theme development

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Primefaces Theme development

Overview of this book

Developing stunning themes for web applications has never been easier! PrimeFaces delivers a powerful set of features that enables JSF developers to create and customize awesome themes on the web. It is very easy to use because it comes as a single JAR file and requires no mandatory XML configuration. With more than 30 out-of-the-box themes, jQuery integration, a mobile UI toolkit, Ajax Push technology, and much more, PrimeFaces takes JSF application development to a whole new level! This book is a hands-on example-rich guide to creating and customizing PrimeFaces themes using available tools. Beginning with creating a JSF project and integrating the PrimeFaces library, this book will introduce you to the features of theme components, how these are structured, and how PrimeFaces uses JQuery UI to apply a theme to your application. You will learn to examine and change the CSS rules and get creative by setting standard icons and adding new icons to them. You will use a combination of JavaScript and CSS to enhance your application with help of scheduler component and go on to adapt and package your custom theme so that it is compatible with the Resource Manager. Finally, you will explore PrimeFaces mobile apps, ensuring themes are compatible with your mobile applications best practices for theme design.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
PrimeFaces Theme Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using CSS Less support to customize CSS styles easily


In recent years, CSS has matured into a very powerful web technology that can be used to style web pages. Now, it is possible to create an almost full-blown website in CSS with minimal usage of images. But while developing big websites, CSS style sheets are longer, harder to manage, and more complex to create. Due to this reason, many dynamic style sheet languages started and evolved. These languages help you write CSS rules using a more flexible, powerful language that is interpreted as regular CSS in web browsers. One of the many dynamic style sheet languages is Less, a popular CSS preprocessor that can be used to streamline CSS code, thus saving time and effort.

Less is a programmable style sheet language that extends the CSS language by combining programming concepts or features such as variables, mixins, functions, operations, and many other techniques that make CSS more maintainable, themeable, and extendable.

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