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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

Turning a standard component into a PrimeFaces one


At least as far as its looks are concerned…

We are now going to try and use the same CSS rules that the PrimeFaces input text uses for the standard one, as follows:

  1. Rather than changing the withPFEquivalent.xhtml page, open the standardJSFWithPFThemes.xhtml page and replace the code inside the ui:composition tag with the same code from the withPFEquivalent.xhtml page.

  2. Then edit the h:inputText tag so that it looks like this:

    <h:inputText class="ui-inputfield ui-inputtext ui-widget ui-state-default ui-corner-all ui-state-focus"/>
  3. Reload the page. You will now see that the standard input text looks like the PrimeFaces text. However, there is one glaring difference—the standard input text does not have focus and it has a nice glow around it. The PrimeFaces input text does not have focus either, but the glow is absent. The following screenshot shows the difference:

If you look at the CSS rules for the PrimeFaces input text by inspecting it...