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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

Chapter 3. jQuery UI, ThemeRoller, and the Anatomy of a Theme

Now that we have a working application, we will look at how a theme is structured. We are going to study the difference between the layout that an application uses and its look and feel. Next we will investigate how PrimeFaces uses jQuery UI to apply a theme to an application. We will then proceed to adding a new theme to the project.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • jQuery UI and its standard CSS rules

  • The difference between a layout and the look and feel of an application

  • How PrimeFaces uses the jQuery UI CSS rules to apply a theme to its components

  • The simplest way of adjusting any theme using custom CSS rules – changing the font and initial font size

  • When simple changes are not enough – introducing ThemeRoller

  • Using ThemeRoller to create a theme and download it

  • CSS in a custom theme as compared to a PrimeFaces theme

  • Packaging a theme to make it fully compatible with PrimeFaces and adding a custom theme to a project...