- PrimeFaces Cookbook Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- PrimeFaces Cookbook Second Edition
- Credits
- Foreword
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started with PrimeFaces
- 2. Theming Concepts
- 3. Enhanced Inputs and Selects
- Introduction
- Formatted input with inputMask
- Auto suggestion with autoComplete
- Usable features of inputTextArea
- Discovering selectBooleanCheckbox and selectManyCheckbox
- Choosing a single item with selectOneMenu
- Basic and advanced calendar scenarios
- Spinner – different ways to provide input
- Slider – different ways to provide input
- Rich text editing with the editor
- Advanced editing with an in-place editor
- Enhanced password input
- Star-based rating input
- 4. Grouping Content with Panels
- Introduction
- Grouping content with a standard panel
- PanelGrid with colspan and rowspan support
- Vertical stacked panels with accordion
- Displaying overflowed content with scrollPanel
- Working with a tabbed panel
- Grouping of buttons and more with toolbar
- The multipurpose output panel
- Simulating the portal environment with dashboard
- Creating complex layouts
- Responsive layout with Grid CSS
- 5. Data Iteration Components
- Introduction
- Selecting rows in dataTable
- Sorting and filtering data in dataTable
- In-cell editing with dataTable
- Resizing, reordering, and toggling columns in dataTable
- Making dataTable responsive
- Using subTable for grouping
- Handling tons of data – LazyDataModel
- Listing data with dataList
- Listing data with pickList
- Listing data with orderList
- Visualizing data with tree
- Visualizing data with treeTable
- Exporting data in various formats
- Managing events with schedule by leveraging lazy loading
- Visualizing data with dataScroller
- 6. Endless Menu Variations
- Introduction
- Statically and dynamically positioned menus
- Creating programmatic menus
- The context menu with nested items
- Integrating the context menu
- Breadcrumb – providing contextual information about page hierarchy
- SlideMenu – menu in the iPod style
- TieredMenu – submenus in nested overlays
- MegaMenu – the multicolumn menu
- PanelMenu – hybrid of accordion and tree
- MenuButton – multiple items in a popup
- Accessing commands via menubar
- Displaying checkboxes in selectCheckboxMenu
- 7. Working with Files, Images, and Multimedia
- Introduction
- Basic, automatic, drag and drop, and multiple file uploading
- Downloading files
- Cropping images
- Creating dynamic image streaming programmatically
- Displaying a collection of images with galleria
- Displaying a collection of images with imageSwitch
- Displaying a collection of images with contentFlow
- Embedding the multimedia content in JSF pages
- Capturing images with photoCam
- 8. Drag Me, Drop Me
- 9. Creating Charts and Maps
- Introduction
- Creating line, area, bar, and pie charts
- Creating combined charts
- Updating live data in charts with polling
- Interacting with charts via AJAX
- Basic mapping with GMaps
- Adding, selecting, and dragging markers in maps
- Creating rectangles, circles, polylines, and polygons in maps
- Enabling InfoWindow and streetView on maps
- 10. Client-side Validation
- 11. Miscellaneous Advanced Use Cases
- Introduction
- Programmatic updating and scrolling with RequestContext
- Two ways of triggering the JavaScript execution
- Adding AJAX callback parameters – validation within a dialog
- Opening external pages in dynamically generated dialogs
- Polling – sending periodical AJAX requests
- Blocking page pieces during long-running AJAX calls
- Controlling form submission using defaultCommand
- Clever focus management in forms
- Layout pitfalls of menus and dialogs
- Targetable messages with severity levels
- Conditional coloring in dataTable
- Sticking a component when scrolling
- Reducing page load time using content caching
- Possibilities for exception handling in PrimeFaces
- Index
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Understanding structural and skinning CSS
- Installing themes
- Customizing default theme styles
- Adjusting the font and size throughout the web application
- Simple ways to create a new theme
- Stateless and stateful theme switchers
- Integrating Font Awesome with PrimeFaces
In this chapter, readers will be introduced to PrimeFaces themes and the concepts involved. Later on, we will build on these concepts to learn theming of the PrimeFaces components. The theming concept used in PrimeFaces is similar to the jQuery ThemeRoller CSS Framework (http://jqueryui.com/themeroller). All PrimeFaces components are designed to allow a developer to integrate them seamlessly into the look and feel of an entire web application. At the time of writing, there are 38 plus ready-to-use themes, which you can preview and download from the PrimeFaces Theme Gallery (http://primefaces.org/themes). There are two kinds of themes: ELITE themes that are available to ELITE & PRO users exclusively or as a standalone purchase, and Community themes that are free to use under Apache License. Community themes include the ones available in ThemeRoller and custom themes such as Twitter Bootstrap.
Powered by ThemeRoller, PrimeFaces separates structural CSS from skinning CSS. The difference between the two CSS concepts is the topic of the first recipe. Installation and customization of PrimeFaces themes, along with creation of new themes, will be detailed. We will also see how to adjust the font family and font size throughout the PrimeFaces components. Adapted font settings provide a consistent look and feel in a multi-theme web application. Two variants of theme switcher will demonstrate how to switch PrimeFaces themes with and without page refresh. Discussion about integrating the Font Awesome CSS toolkit for scalable vector icons will finish this chapter.
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