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PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   PrimeFaces Beginner's Guide The perfect introduction to PrimeFaces, this tutorial will take you step by step through all the great features, ranging from form-creation to sophisticated navigation systems. All you need are some basic JSF and jQuery skills.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783280698
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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K. Siva Prasad Reddy K. Siva Prasad Reddy
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to PrimeFaces FREE CHAPTER 2. Introducing Sample Application TechBuzz 3. Using PrimeFaces Common Utility Components 4. Introducing the PrimeFaces Client Side Validation Framework 5. Introducing Text Input Components 6. Working with Selection Input Components 7. Introducing Advanced Input Components 8. Working with Data Components 9. Introducing Advanced Data Visualization Components 10. Working with Layout Components 11. Introducing Navigation Components 12. Drawing Charts 13. Using PrimeFaces Themes Index

Creating a Bar chart

The Bar chart component visualizes a series of data points as bars. We can use the same org.primefaces.model.chart.CartesianChartModel type instance, which we used for the Line chart, to provide the data for the Bar chart.

Let us create a Bar chart representing tags usage statistics over recent years.

<p:barChart value="#{chartController.chartModel}" legendPosition="nw" style="width: 400px; height: 250px;" />
Creating a Bar chart

A Bar chart also supports most of the features supported by the Line chart, such as labels and angles for X and Y axis, various legendPositions, seriesColors, stacked, zoom, animate, custom dataTipFormat, and so on. In addition to these options, the Bar chart provides the following options to customize its behavior:

  • barPadding: This is the padding of the bars. The default value for it is 8.
  • barMargin: This is the margin of the bars. The default value for it is 10.
  • orientation: This is the orientation of the bars, the valid values for...
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