PrimeFaces Cookbook - Second Edition

Creating complex layouts

The layout component introduces a customizable border layout model that could easily be used to create complex layouts. In this recipe, we will create layouts with five distinct regions and a full-page layout that spans the whole page.

How to do it…

This customizable border layout model can be applied either to a full page or to a specific element. A basic definition of a full-page layout would be as follows:

<p:layout fullPage="true"> <p:layoutUnit position="north" size="100" header= "Top" resizable="true" closable="true" collapsible="true"> <h:outputText value="Layout content for North" /> </p:layoutUnit> <p:layoutUnit position="south" size="100" header="Bottom" resizable="true" closable="true" collapsible="true"> <h:outputText ...