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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 CSS rule to set the background color in an HTML element


Before discussing how to apply background colors for the schedule component cells, let's create two pages, named dynamicChangesClientsidecall.xhtml and dynamicChangesServersidecall.xhtml, for both client-side and server-side approaches, respectively.

Before applying a CSS rule to set the background color for an HTML element, we first have to create a CSS class with the background color property .You can either add a CSS rule in the head section of the same XHTML file or in a separate external style sheet file. In this case, we are going to add the CSS rule in the same file for simplicity.

Add the following CSS style classes to both of the pages for date and event selection in the head section using the Facelets technology, as follows:

<ui:define name="name">
<style type="text/css">
  .scheduleDateBackground {
  background: yellow !important;
  }
</style>
<style type="text/css">
  .scheduleEventBackground...