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PrimeFaces Cookbook

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PrimeFaces Cookbook

Overview of this book

PrimeFaces is the de facto standard in the Java web development. PrimeFaces is a lightweight library with one jar, zero-configuration, and no required dependencies. You just need to download PrimeFaces, add the primefaces-{version}.jar to your classpath and import the namespace to get started. This cookbook provides a head start by covering all the knowledge needed for working with PrimeFaces components in the real world. "PrimeFaces Cookbook" covers over 100 effective recipes for PrimeFaces 3.x which is a leading component suite to boost JSF applications. The book's range is wide‚Äí from AJAX basics, theming, and input components to advanced usage of datatable, menus, drag & drop, and charts. It also includes creating custom components and PrimeFaces Extensions.You will start with the basic concepts such as installing PrimeFaces, configuring it, and writing a first simple page. You will learn PrimeFaces' theming concept and common inputs and selects components. After that more advanced components and use cases will be discussed. The topics covered are grouping content with panels, data iteration components, endless menu variations, working with files and images, using drag & drop, creating charts, and maps. The last chapters describe solutions for frequent, advanced scenarios and give answers on how to write custom components based on PrimeFaces and also show the community-driven open source project PrimeFaces Extension in action.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
PrimeFaces Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Slider – different ways to provide input


The slider component provides the ability to the user to input a value by using a slider bar. The component requires an input component to work properly.

How to do it...

As mentioned earlier, we first need to define an input component that will be used by the slider component. The for attribute is used to set the ID of the input component whose input will be provided by the slider component. The basic definition of a slider would be as follows:

<h:inputText id="basicSlider" value="#{sliderController.intValue}" />
<p:slider for="basicSlider" />

This will render an input text along with a horizontal slider bar as follows:

By default, the slider renders a horizontal bar for sliding. With the type attribute, the slider can also be set to render a vertical bar with the value set as vertical. The minValue attribute defines the minimum value of the slider with default value 0. The maxValue attribute defines the maximum value of the slider with...