ADF Skinning: Increase width, Change color of a tab in af:panelTabbed

We can change appearance of ADF Application by applying CSS and changing style properties of ADF Faces Component
Here i am writing a simple CSS to increase tab width of af:panelTabbed component

I hope you all know how to create a skin for ADF Application , If don't know then look at this post
ADF Basics: Using CSS to change appearance of application (Skins and Styles in ADF Faces) 

Insert and show whitespace in ADF Faces Components (panelBox, showDetailItem etc)

This post is about a small trick
How to show whitespace in ADF Faces component properly ?
Recently i found a question on OTN about this
 How can I and spaces in the text property of a showDetailItem?
so thought to document it here for future reference

There is one more post about showing whitespace , check it
Showing white-spaces properly in ADF table column- 11g & 12c

Sometimes we need to insert some whitespace in between of some text as panelBox name, tab name in showDetailItem etc
In this case space appears in page editor but it doesn't appear on page and you can not put spacer at these points because there is only one component



Suppose you have a panelBox and requirement is to show Oracle    ADF as it's header text . In this case providing space in propertyInspector doesn't work , HTML entity for space   also doesn't work because of no DOCTYPE declaration

See here i added normal spaces in property of panelBox

 But is doesn't work :(

Now what to do ?
After lots of hit and tries finally i found that it work with equivalent entity number for  
and this magic number is  -  
So tried this -

 <af:panelBox text="Oracle&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;ADF" id="pb1">
                    <f:facet name="toolbar"/>
                </af:panelBox>

and output is

This is the small trick , sometimes you may need this :)
Cheers, Happy Learning :)

Navigating to (open) specific tab in af:panelTabbed programmatically -Oracle ADF

Hello All,
This post is about a development requirement - how to move (navigate or open) to a specific tab in panel tabbed  in Oracle ADF?
Suppose i have to open second tab of af:panelTabbed on a button click, so see how to do this using ADF Faces

• Create a Fusion Web application and a page to drop panel tabbed and a button





• now bind panel tabbed and it's showDetailItem to managed bean, in order to use disclosed property and to get client id
See the code to open (disclose) a specific tab of af:panelTabbed


    //Binding of Panel Tabbed
    private RichPanelTabbed panelTabBind;

    public void setPanelTabBind(RichPanelTabbed panelTabBind) {
        this.panelTabBind = panelTabBind;
    }

    public RichPanelTabbed getPanelTabBind() {
        return panelTabBind;
    }

    /**
     * @Method to disclose (open) specific tab
     * Pass the binding of af:showDetailItem that you want to open
     */
    public void setDisclosedFirstTab(RichShowDetailItem tabBind) {
        RichPanelTabbed richPanelTabbed = getPanelTabBind();
        for (UIComponent child : richPanelTabbed.getChildren()) {
            RichShowDetailItem sdi = (RichShowDetailItem) child;
            if (sdi.getClientId().equals(tabBind.getClientId())) {
                sdi.setDisclosed(true);
            } else {
                sdi.setDisclosed(false);
            }
        }
        AdfFacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addPartialTarget(panelTabBind);
    }



• Now see the code written on button action- here i have checked that which tab is currently disclosed? and based on that i have passed next tab binding to this method





    /**Method to be called on Navigate Button
     * @param actionEvent
     */
    public void naviGateButtonAction(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        if (firstTabBind.isDisclosed()) {
            setDisclosedFirstTab(secTabBind);
        } else if (secTabBind.isDisclosed()) {
            setDisclosedFirstTab(thirdTabBind);
        } else {
            setDisclosedFirstTab(firstTabBind);
        }
    }



• now run your page and see navigation in af:panelTabbed

 Cheers Happy Learning :) Sample ADF Application