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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 customized mobile themes – the power of jQuery Mobile ThemeRoller


PrimeFaces Mobile themes are based on jQuery themes, which provide the CSS framework to give the necessary, consistent, and touch-friendly look and feel for widgets across all platforms.

Each theme contains multiple color schemes known as swatches. We use single-letter designations for swatches. You don't need to specify a swatch for each widget available in the page. By default, for most of the widgets, the theme option is set to null, which means that you can override the swatch for each individual widget. Because of the default null value, we can set the swatch for the outermost container. Then, the swatch will be inherited or applied to all the widgets inside the container.

The theme also defines the "active" state apart from all the swatches. The intention of this state is to give immediate feedback for a brief processing delay. jQuery Mobile adds the active state for a button once a user lifts their finger from...