Adjusting the font and size throughout the web application
by Oleg Varaksin, Mert Çalışkan
PrimeFaces Cookbook - Second Edition
- 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
Each PrimeFaces theme has a specific font family and font size, which can differ from theme to theme. This may have a disadvantage in a multi-theme application because switching from one theme to another would cause a broken layout. Furthermore, default font sizes of themes might be bigger than expected. Hence, it is important to know how to change font properties of the PrimeFaces components globally.
In this recipe, we will learn how to adjust the font family and font size throughout the web application.
A simple way to change fonts globally can be accomplished by using the .ui-widget style class. An example of smaller font is as follows:
.ui-widget, .ui-widget .ui-widget {
font-size: 90% !important;
}This might not be enough in some cases, especially when you mix PrimeFaces and JSF standard components based on native HTML pendants. In this case, more CSS selectors are required to be listed in order to adjust fonts globally. Assume that we have decided to use the font Arial with size as 12 pixel. CSS selectors working for all known components would be as in the following code:
body,
input,
select,
textarea,
button,
.ui-widget,
.ui-widget input,
.ui-widget select,
.ui-widget textarea,
.ui-widget button,
.ui-widget-header,
.ui-widget-content,
.ui-widget-header .ui-widget-header,
.ui-widget-content .ui-widget-content {
font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px !important;
}All PrimeFaces components are styled by the ui-widget style class. It is a skinning style specified by jQuery ThemeRoller and applied to HTML elements rendered by PrimeFaces. An input element has it, for instance:
<input type="text" class="ui-inputfield ui-inputtext ui-widget ui-state-default ui-corner-all" name="..." id="..." role="textbox">
In rare cases, when some component parts have been assigned font properties, but are not styled by .ui-widget or you use non-PrimeFaces components, more CSS selectors are needed for changing font properties throughout the web application.
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