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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

Changing the shadow effects


In this section, we will examine the rules that define how shadow effects should look.

Shadow effects are pseudo-3D effects used by jQuery UI and PrimeFaces to great effect when overlays are used. An overlay is a component that is laid out above the rest of the page. They also cover up content in the background. To exaggerate the three-dimensional effect, a shadow effect is used.

An example of an overlay with a shadow effect can be seen in the following screenshot:

The dialog box in the middle is displayed as an overlay. The background is actually covered by a so-called curtain and it has a shadow that makes it stand out above the background even more.

The last two rules in our theme, .ui-widget-overlay and .ui-widget-shadow, define the curtain that covers the background content and the shadow attached to the dialog box.

The overlay rule looks like this:

.ui-widget-overlay {
  background: #aaaaaa url("#{resource['primefaces-moodyblue2:images/ui-bg_flat_0_aaaaaa_40x100...