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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

Rich text editing with editor


editor is an input component that provides rich text editing features. It contains a toolbar that can also be configured with custom controls to provide more functionality to the user.

How to do it...

The basic component declaration for editor, which renders default controls such as indentation and font and color selection would be as follows:

<p:editor value="#{editorController.text}" />

The component will be rendered on the page with default controls as shown in the following screenshot:

There's more...

The editor component offers the controls attribute, which can be used to customize the toolbar of the editor. For instance, the following declaration will render only three controls, bold, italic, and strikethrough:

<p:editor value="#{editorController.text}" controls="bold italic strikethrough" />

The component will be rendered as shown in the following screenshot:

The list of available controls is as follows:

  • alignleft

  • alignright

  • bold

  • bullets

  • center...