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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

Comparing our theme to a PrimeFaces one


If you look at the rules in the theme that we generated and compare them to a PrimeFaces one, you will see that we have exactly the same set of rules in both. Although we have the same set of rules, it is their definitions that determine how a theme looks and feels.

In order to view the CSS rules in our theme, we need to unpack the ZIP file that we downloaded. We then need to navigate our way through the folders until we see one called custom-theme. This folder contains two versions of the same CSS file—a human-readable version and one that has been minimized to reduce the file's size.

The following screenshot shows the path that you need to take to open the CSS files:

In order to view the CSS of a PrimeFaces theme, you can unpack one of the themes that PrimeFaces supplies and search for a theme.css file, download one of the pre-made themes of the same name from ThemeRoller, or unpack the pre-made theme in exactly the same way as we did for the custom...