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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 4. A PrimeFaces inputText Component in Detail

In this chapter, we are going to take a simple UI component and use browser developer tools to examine and change the CSS rules applied to it. We will strip away some of the mysteries involved in applying a theme to your application.

In addition to this, we will see that PrimeFaces applies theme rules dynamically. We will learn how to do this for a standard JSF component too.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating a new JSF page and adding a standard inputText component

  • Examining the UI element using the browser developer tool

  • Adding a PrimeFaces inputText component to the page and comparing these two elements

  • Adding CSS classes to the standard inputText field to make it look like a PrimeFaces inputText field