Adding CSS class or style to p:message - jsf

I have single p:message for which I want to set display: inline-block.
I've tried the following:
<p:message ... styleClass="inline-block" style="display:inline-block;/>
But when I see the sources, both style and class are NOT rendered on the div with messages.
Is there any way to specify the custom CSS attributes to the p:message directly?
I'm aware I can wrap it with div and steer the CSS of the children of that div, but I'd like to avoid superfluous wrapping, if possible.
PrimeFaces version: 3.5.

Have to disagree with Hatem Alimam
As the mykong article goes, you should add your stylesheet to override the Primefaces CSS.
!important in CSS stylesheet is seen as bad practice. Check these quick SO answers to see what the SO community thinks:
Is !important bad for performance?
What are the implications of using “!important” in CSS?
Is it bad to use !important in css property
The last one has an answer in defense of the !important but brings about the problem when several !important rules come into play (and if you start using it without reserve, you are bound to have it blow in your face and they start cascading one after the other.
The right way to do it is either to make your stylesheet have precedence over the PF sheet, to make your selectors get precedence over the ones in PF in the cascading.
Google for CSS selector Specificity for more on how to make sure your rule is picked by the browser over the PF ones (I am at work now and can't access blogs).
Onto your specific question:
The attributes do not work because they are not coded in the component. Check the PF user guide for your particular PF version (at the time of this writing, you have not stated your version). The <p:messages> component has a rather peculiar way of rendering.
for your particular case, add the following rule:
.ui-messages.ui-widget {
display: inline-block;
}

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How to use Growl with 'position: sticky' in Primefaces?

I am trying to change the p:growl position of primefaces through the .ui-growl class to use position: sticky. However, since the component is rendered at the end in body, the relative behavior of the position does not work as I would like.
Is there any way to use the sticky position for this component?
Or some way to get the component to render where it is declared?
PrimeFaces 5.1;
Mojarra 2.1;
Disclamer: I tried this with the PF 7.0 showcase, but I think the basics also work with the 5.1 version.
You effectively have 4 options. The latter three all need you to inspect the javascript source of the component (which is open, so you can ALWAYS inspect it before asking questions, the java source is irrelevant here) and for the first solution it helps to see how the component works, but inspecting with a browser developer tool is sufficient (that is how I did it).
Basic analysis with or without looking at the source
This is a variant on your "Or some way to get the component to render where it is declared?". Since on the client side, it is all plain html, css and javascript, you can manipulate with al tools available on the client-side.
You can see that the main part of the grow is html technically rendered where it is declared. Check the PrimeFaces showcase and you'll see
<span id="j_idt700:growl" class="ui-growl-pl" data-widget="widget_j_idt700_growl" data-summary="data-summary" data-detail="data-detail" data-severity="all,error" data-redisplay="true"></span>
right inside the form where it also is in the xhtml. The javascript of the component creates the client side dom things, amongst which is the container that you see right before the end of the body (from the showcase)
<div id="j_idt700:growl_container" class="ui-growl ui-widget" style="z-index: 1002;"></div>
This last piece is html is where the individual growls are added to when they need to be rendered and hence the part that makes the component in most normal cases behave correctly but needs to be done differently in your case.
Solution 1, pure client-side component agnostic solution
Effectively this is as simple as moving this piece of html in the dom, see How to move an element into another element?.
In the online showcase I put the following jquery code in the browser developer tool console
$("#j_idt700\\:growl_container").prependTo(".layout-content");
And added the following css
position: sticky;
top: 10px;
float: right; // this is needed in the showcase, might not always be needed
And it worked.
The jquery should be put somewhere in your page where it runs after the component javascript is executed, so best is to do it right before the end of the body.
Keep in mind that the j_idt700 prefix is the dynamic id of the form in the showcase (it does not have a fixed id here), but you can also use different selectors based on the classes or whatever)
Solution 2, changing the source 'locally'
In the javascript source, you can see where the container is technically rendered
render: function() {
//create container
this.jq = $('<div id="' + this.id + '_container" class="ui-growl ui-widget"></div>');
this.jq.appendTo($(document.body));
//render messages
this.show(this.cfg.msgs);
},
Changing the this.jq.appendTo($(document.body)); in some way to have it appended to the current html node ('this'?) will make it work too. Regarding the overriding, you have two options
How do I find and/or override JavaScript in Primefaces component based on widgetVar?
Override a method from a Primefaces specific widget
Solution 3 Changing the source server side
Effectively you do the first part of #2 but patch the source and create a new custom PrimeFaces version
Solution 4 Make this feature avaiable for others too
What can be done here is to create a new attribute on the component and patch the source in some places so it is configurable to have the component behave as it is now or as sticky (they changed the existing 'sticky' attribute to 'keepAlive' in 7.0.x so sticky is avalable again ;-)). Of course this should be submitted as a patch then...

AEM 6.2 (Drag Component Here) Parsys height 0px

I am using AEM 6.2 and trying to create a parsys component in crx, using the code below
However, the height of this parsys, in edit mode, comes as 0px.
Attached are the screenshots.
When I manually change the height to some values eg. 40px, it looks fine.
Note: I am not using any client library for the above page. (no css and js)
Futher, All sample sites like geomatrix etc have parsys showing correctly.
Could anyone guide me with what I am doing wrong?
I think that the problem is outside the component or any of the code shown here.
I think what's happening is that the css style for the div that gives the droptarget placeholder its dimensions is not loading.
That's loaded as part of the AEM authoring client libraries which you should be inheriting from the foundation page component.
Examine your page component's sling:resourceSuperType property. It should point to either wcm/foundation/components/page or wcm/foundation/components/page or inherit from a component that does.
If that is set then you have may have blocked one of the scripts within it, quite possibly head.html.
Include following code in the head section of the page component's rendering script.
<!--/* Include Adobe Dynamic Tag Management libraries for the header
<sly data-sly-include="/libs/cq/cloudserviceconfigs/components/servicelibs/servicelibs.jsp" data-sly-unwrap/>
*/-->
<!--/* Initializes the Experience Manager authoring UI */-->
<sly data-sly-include="/libs/wcm/core/components/init/init.jsp" data-sly-unwrap/>
For resolving your issue, you need to include init.jsp in the first before writing down the parsys code. I mean write like this.
<head>
<sly data-sly-include='/libs/wcm/core/components/init/init.jsp' />
</head>
<body>
<sly data-sly-resource="${'par' #resourceType='foundation/components/parsys'}" />
</body>
I think #l-klement pointed it out correctly that the problem is outside component. When I rename the landingpage.html file to body.html it starts working fine. I think this may be because of different files like head.html etc present at wcm/foundation/components/page which is required to provide proper styling and load certain required client libraries which assigns proper styling to parsys.
If the above is true, my next question would be, How can I have my own head.html, body.html, header.html, footer.html etc files without compromising with the parsys styling?

Conflicts between Custom theme CSS and Liferay CSS

I am trying to customize the Liferay UI by using custom theme using base as as "_Styled" theme.
I have my own css files which I coped to _diff/css folder of theme and imported them "custom.css" file .However its breaking the presentation of liferay.In my custom CSS I have styles defined for all the standard tags like body,div etc which is impacting the liferay UI too.
How can I resolve this conflict? Thanks in advance!
Quick (and not the best) solution is to remove contents of liferays css file (for example "base.css") and save this empty file in /diff/css/ folder of your theme. This way the base.css will get overriden with your new empty file and thus no styles will get loaded. And your custom.css will be the only stylesheet that is taken into account.
Well, of course it all has an effect on the rest of Liferay as well. Liferay provides quite a bit of the HTML DOM of your page, and if you change the presentation of all of those elements, you'll have to take care to style Liferay's elements too.
Is this a conflict? No. Let's go for the simplest case: You declare div {color:green;}. Of course, now everything, your components as well as Liferay's components, use green text. If you only want to style your own portlets, you might want to specify some portlets: div.portlet-my-own-application {color:green;}
I know that color is a too simple usecase, but I hope it illustrates the solution strategy.
Rather than following Artem Khojoyan's suggestion to override Liferay's base.css, I'd recommend to take a look at the resulting css, what's effective etc., and simplify your own css - adapt it to be used within Liferay - by inspecting the effective CSS for every elements that looks off. Firebug or any of it's relatives are your friend.
I'm afraid, with the details "I'm doing something which has an effect on Liferay UI" there's nothing much more to help you. In fact, I'd hope that what you do has an effect on Liferay's UI... You'll just need to find the proper CSS code
Ideally if your styles are loaded from custom.css, then will overwrite liferay default styles.
In some cases, to overwrite a style in css, you can use !important
for example, liferay default style
body {
background-color: #fff
}
You can specify your style to consider irrespective of order of loading
body {
background-color: red !important;
}

How to display dash line into p:tree

I'm interested how I can display dash line into p:tree?
In this tutorial there is no dash line maybe the only way is to add it manually.
Is there a way to add it?
You can do this using CSS selectors.
Internally Primefaces v.2 use a YUI tree view, so the CSS classes are the same - they're documented here.
Primefaces v.3 I think use their own set of CSS classes for the tree view - you can either find them in the documentation or figure them out analysing the showcase example using e.g. Firebug.

JSF to set style in stylesheets?

So I'm trying to create a webpage with customizable style for each user. You can save style options as strings in a JSF bean property and access them in inline style attributes, or <style> tags within a webpage very easily, but who uses inline/onpage styling anymore?
Is there any way to forward these properties from a JSF (2.0) bean to my stylesheet or am I required to simply add <style> blocks to the pages I wish to be customizable?
EDIT: I guess I could make a function to write these properties to a stylesheet, making one for each user, but this is obviously not preferred.
For full customization, you could save stylesheets for all the changeable elements and their style options and reference these with your bean properties.
Since that is quite a bit of stylesheets though, you could just define your own style schemes and give the users a choice between these pre-defined stylesheets. This doesn't exactly answer your question but would save a lot of work
I'm not sure exactly what your functionality is, but one option would be ->
<h:outputStylesheet library="css" name="#{userBean.styleSheetName}" />
Where the "UserBean" had names of sheets.
Alternatively you could just output the stylesheet (as you said) inbetween the style tags. If you wanted to go nuts you could write a servlet that read the user's session and generated a cached stylesheet.
I would definitely go the servlet route for the functionality you're suggesting, but if it is just a "set" of stylesheets the users have access to, I would probably use a simple dynamic property as per the first example.

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