Grouping content with a standard panel

A generic grouping component for JSF components, panel has features such as toggling, closing, a built-in pop-up menu, and AJAX event listeners. In this recipe, we will create panels that can be closed and toggled, with custom action menus and AJAX behaviors added.

How to do it…

A basic definition of the panel would be as follows:

<p:panel id="simple" header="PrimeFaces" footer="The Cookbook">
  <h:outputText value="Open Source Primefaces is the leading JSF
    Component Suite in the industry, which is adopted widely and
    being used in production ready projects around the globe." />
</p:panel>

The preceding definition of the panel will be rendered as shown in the following image:

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The header and footer attributes ...

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