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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

Do the changes same way for PrimeFaces Mobile


The aforementioned theme changes are not just specific to the desktop or PrimeFaces core themes. They can be applied to mobile themes as well. You can make changes to themes when you don’t like a specific skinning feature. At the same time, you can follow similar skinning process across all the widgets when you like it.

For example, you will see how the font-family, font-size, and line-height CSS properties of a theme file are changed according to users’ interests or requirements.

The default font-family attribute used by mobile themes is sans-serif. Let’s try to change the font-family attribute to the newly added RobotoRegular, which is a sans-serif family developed by Google for the Android operating system. After doing this, increase the font-size value and decrease the line-height value a little for a better appearance and readability.

The preceding changes that were made to the CSS class and which were applied to the body, input, select, textarea...