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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

Fonts make the text stand out


As you already know, CSS font properties define the font family, boldness, size, and style of the text. These font properties make the text stand out from the rest of the page. You need to make sure that the font properties are customized in a right direction. Otherwise, it makes the text unreadable.

Changing the font size is an easy way to provide visual hierarchy and emphasis to the web page. The larger the font size, the greater the emphasis is on that text as compared to other text elements. The headings and titles require big font sizes to emphasize them from the surrounding text. Many users feel that some themes make the components slightly too large for most applications. In that case, we can reduce the font size directly, as follows:

.ui-widget, .ui-widget .ui-widget {
  font-size: 90% !important;
}

At the same time, we shouldn't use small text size to squeeze more text into a web page. Otherwise, website visitors will be forced to enlarge the text every...