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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

Changing the foreground and background colors


Although we have set the foreground and background color for our theme, we might want to make some changes for specific regions of a page for visual clarity.

To get started, search for color in theme.css. In order to find just color and not background-color as well, start your filter with a space character.

I found 15 instances of color. So I have to check to see which rules are of immediate interest to me. I am interested in the rules that define the look and feel of components that are not involved in the dynamic state feedback, such as any rule that defines selected, active, and hover.

This leaves us with the following four rules.

.ui-widget-content {
  border: 1px solid #aaaaff;
  background: #ffffff url("#{resource['primefaces-moodyblue2:images/ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png']}") 50% 50% repeat-x;
  color: #222222;
}
.ui-widget-content a {
  color: #222222;
}
.ui-widget-header {
  border: 1px solid #aaaaff;
  background: #ccccff url("#{resource...