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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 theme and downloading it


In this section, we are going to use the jQuery ThemeRoller tool to create a custom theme, which can be downloaded and eventually added to a project.

If you visit http://jqueryui.com/, there are lots of links to choose from. The one that interests us is the Themes link highlighted in the following screenshot:

By following the link, you will come across to a page that has quite a few things going on. Most notable, for me at least, is the big Download theme button:

Before we use this, let us take some time to explore the page.

What we have here is a tool that allows us to change the CSS settings for the theme and see those changes reflected in the demo content immediately. Also, we do not need to know any CSS in order to change things.

We can also choose an existing theme from the Gallery tab and change things until we are happy with the result. Then we can use the big Download theme button to get the resulting theme CSS file that we want.

If we go to the Gallery...