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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

Adding the new icons to your theme


In order to apply the custom icons to your web page, we first need to copy the generated image sprite file and then add the generated CSS classes from the previous section.

The following generated sprite file has to be added to the images folder of the primefaces-moodyBlue2 custom theme. Let's name the file ui-custom-icons:

After this, copy the generated CSS rules from the previous section.

The first CSS class (ui-icon) contains the image sprite to display custom icons using the background URL property and dimensions such as the width and height properties for each icon. But since we are going to add the image reference in widget state style classes, you need to remove the background image URL property from the ui-icon class. Hence, the ui-icon class contains only the width and height dimensions:

.ui-icon {
  width: 16px;
  height: 16px;
}

Later, modify the icon-specific CSS class names as shown in the following format. Each icon has its own icon name:

.ui-icon...