How to control style of UI?

[Ronald Johnson]

Hi,

I am new to JSF and I am curious how to control the UI so that the web pages will look exactly as the end customer wants it to be?
Stylesheets?

also, if someone can point me in direction of any websites/discussion with more info on this, I would be very grateful.
(i couldnt find anything when googling)

[Gregg Bolinger]

JSF components all get rendered as HTML. And all components have a styleClass attribute that you can use to apply a style from a stylesheet or you can use the style attribute to apply an inline style. In short, yes, stylesheets.

[Tim Holloway]

In fact, some JSF components - like the Apache Faces popup calendar - basically won't work properly unless you've provided a good set of style definitions.

Add to that the fact that good JSF design doesn't include raw HTML and you almost have no other option than stylesheets.
[ January 15, 2007: Message edited by: Tim Holloway ]

[Ronald Johnson]

thanks for the replies, some more question:

is it possible to generate a basic stylesheet somehow?
(since i guess that different implementations could generate different html code)

or do I have to do the hard work of looking at the generated html and figure out which elements that are used?

or should i use the style attribute in all tags in the .jsp file?

questions, questions, questions

[Rajeev Ravindran]

I dont really understand your question. As Gregg said , almost all JSF component has a style and styleclass attribute, you can use style attribute to asign a static style and styleclass to the class defined in the css file. Hope it explains !

Thanks,
[ January 18, 2007: Message edited by: Gregg Bolinger ]

[A. Dusi]

Also, the styleClass attribute of all the components can take a dynamic value. For example, you can give
styleClass="#{yourBackingBean.currentCustomerStyle}".