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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

Introducing the standard theme icon set


jQuery UI provides a big set of standard icons that can be applied by just adding icon class names to HTML elements. The full list of icons is available at its official site, which can be viewed by visiting http://api.jqueryui.com/theming/icons/.

Also, available in some of the published icon cheat sheets at http://www.petefreitag.com/cheatsheets/jqueryui-icons/.

The icon class names follow the following syntax in order to add them for HTML elements:

.ui-icon-{icon type}-{icon sub description}-{direction}

For example, the following span element will display an icon of a triangle pointing to the south:

<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-triangle-1-s"></span>

Other icons such as ui-icon-triangle-1-n, ui-icon-triangle-1-e, and ui-icon-triangle-1-w represent icons of triangles pointing to the north, east, and west respectively. The direction element is optional, and it is available only for a few icons such as a triangle, an arrow, and so on.

These theme...