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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

The Font Awesome icons as an alternative to the ThemeRoller icons


In addition to the default ThemeRoller icon set, the PrimeFaces team provided and supported a set of alternative icons named the Font Awesome iconic font and CSS framework. Originally, it was designed for the Twitter Bootstrap frontend framework. Currently, it works well with all frameworks. The official site for the Font Awesome toolkit is http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/.

The features of Font Awesome that make it a powerful iconic font and CSS toolkit are as follows:

  • One font, 519 icons: In a single collection, Font Awesome is a pictographic language of web-related actions

  • No JavaScript required: It has minimum compatibility issues because Font Awesome doesn't required JavaScript

  • Infinite scalability: SVG (short for Scalable Vector Graphics) icons look awesome in any size

  • Free to use: It is completely free and can be used for commercial usage

  • CSS control: It's easy to style the icon color, size, shadow, and so on...