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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

Creating a new JSF page


We will first create a new folder in web pages called chapter5, as this has become a standard practice for new chapters. Then, we create a new JSF template client called index.xhtml and add a link to it in the chaptersTemplate template file. When adding a submenu, use Chapter 5 for the label, and for the menu item, use Let's get creative! for its value.

In the title section, replace the text title with the title of this chapter, Let's get creative!.

In the content section, replace the text content with the following code:

<p:button value="This is a button"/>
<p:panel header="This is the panel header" toggleable="true" toggleTitle="Click me to open/close the panel">
  <h:panelGrid columns="1">
    <h:outputText value="Here is some panel content"/>
  </h:panelGrid>
</p:panel>

Now, run the application and navigate to the newly created page. You will see the PrimeFaces Panel component, which is shown in the following screenshot:

The PrimeFaces...