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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 JavaScript function to apply CSS rules to a specific HTML element


It is not enough to create a CSS rule in order to apply skinning capabilities to an HTML element. We need to assign this CSS rule for a generated HTML element with the help of a JS function. If you look at the generated HTML for a schedule component using developer tools, then it clearly shows that each day cell in the schedule is a <td> element with a data-date attribute to store the current date.

The generated HTML for the schedule component of the first row will be as follows:

Now, let's create a JS function in the head section for the yellow background color required for the date selection. The JavaScript function is created in two ways, based on either client-side or server-side access.

The client-side access approach to set the background color for a selected date can be implemented by adding the following code snippet in the head tag of the dynamicChangesClientsidecall.xhtml page:

function setSelectedDateBackground...