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...