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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

See what you don’t like in the showcase and apply the changes


In the previous chapters, we saw how to create themes according to customer requirements using the ThemeRoller framework and also how to customize the theme by manually editing the CSS properties of the theme.css file. But in this chapter, you are going to learn how to customize themes by installing the existing theme (moodyblue2 as an example) on the showcase application and then making changes to the aspects of the theme that you don’t like.

These days, designers use the rounded corners feature frequently because they are industry standards more than a design trend. Some expert says that rectangles with rounded corners are easier on the eyes than a rectangle with sharp edges because less cognitive effort is required to visually process them. Considering this fact, by default, themes contain 3px rounded corners on every side of an HTML component.

However, you may think that it looks better to have a more rounding value on the corners...