Overview of Liferay Development and Liferay Portal | Liferay Theme

Liferay Development  and Liferay Theme consist of the following thing: 

1. CSS
2. HTML
3. Velocity
4. Java script
5. Jquery
6. Alloy

 1. CSS
         CSS stands for (Cascading style sheet)
           Styles define how to display HTML elements on page

           Why CSS is Used?
            
              Css is used to give good formatting and style for text
                  Styles define how to display HTML elements
                  External Style Sheets can save a lot of work      
                  Make a global change
                  More flexibility
                  Change the appearance and layout of all the pages

 2. HTML 
           HTML is simple but use to giving structure of template for the theme
              Using Html we make table in template HTML is used only developed Static page

 3. Velocity

              Velocity Language consists of.......
                  Java-based template engine
                   Open source software project
                     Reference objects defined in java code
                      Control statements
                       Arbitrary java methods
                        Java code cannot be embedded in pages
            And here is it application:
              A. Web applications.
              B. Source code generation.
              C. Automatic emails.
              D. XML transformation.

 4. Java Script
                       
JavaScript is important to provide functionality of event that means using java script we can create input box, button, list box drop down etc
                         The Main use of JavaScript in theme is:
                                   1. Functionality
                                   2. Validate forms
                                   3. Communicate with the serve
 5. Jquery

   Query is a library of JavaScript Functions.

    jQuery is a lightweight "write less, do more" JavaScript library.

    The jQuery library contains the following features:

•    HTML element selections
•    HTML element manipulation
•    CSS manipulation
•    HTML event functions
•    JavaScript Effects and animations
•    HTML DOM traversal and modification
•    AJAX
•    Utilities
 6. Alloy
•     Is Liferay's open-source JavaScript library.
•     It is a JavaScript library,
•    CSS framework,
•    set of HTML recipes and a taglib library.
  Important of Alloy:
        Simple code for professional UI
        Custom form tags
        Classes are available for Alloy Modules
        Improve coding efficiency
        Browser compatibility  

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