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Development and Tooling

Liferay offers a comprehensive toolkit to extend or customize your digital experience. Build applications quickly with low-code/no-code features like Objects, or leverage developer tools like Liferay Workspace and Blade CLI for further customizations.

For users on PaaS or running Self-Hosted, Liferay also offers tools deploying customizations.

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Clay Form Elements
Clay Form Elements The Liferay Clay tag library provides several tags for creating form elements. An example of each tag is shown below. Checkbox Checkboxes give the user a true or false input. "...
Step Charts
Step Charts Step charts contain multiple sets of data. A step chart steps between the points of data, resembling steps. Each data series (created with the addColumns() method) is defined with a new...
Clay Badges
Clay Badges Badges help highlight important information such as notifications or new and unread messages. Badges have circular borders and are only used to specify a number. This covers the...
Clay Cards
Clay Cards Cards visually represent data. Use them for images, document libraries, user profiles and more. There are four main types of Cards: Image Cards File Cards User Cards Horizontal...
Clay Alerts
Clay Alerts Clay alerts come in two types: embedded and stripe. Both types, along with several examples of each, are shown below. Embedded Alerts Embedded alerts are usually used inside forms. The...
Clay Tag Library
Clay Tag Library The Liferay Clay tag library provides a set of tags for creating Clay UI components in your app. AUI taglibs are deprecated as of Liferay 7.1. We recommend that you use Clay...
Clay Buttons
Clay Buttons Buttons come in several types and variations. This tutorial covers the different styles and variations of buttons you can create with the Clay taglibs. Types Primary button: Used for...
Clay Dropdown Menus and Action Menus
Clay Dropdown Menus and Action Menus You can add dropdown menus to your app via the clay:dropdown-menu and clay:actions-menu taglibs. The Clay taglibs provide several menu variations for you to...
Clay Management Toolbar
Clay Management Toolbar The Management Toolbar gives administrators control over search container results in their apps. It lets you filter, sort, and choose a view type for search results, so you...
Clay Navigation Bars
Clay Navigation Bars Similar to dropdown menus, navigation bars display a list of navigation items. The key difference is navigation bars are displayed in a horizontal bar with all navigation items...
Liferay Portlet Objects For JSPs
Liferay Portlet Objects For JSPs You may have noticed the tag in your JSPs. Similar to the theme:defineObjects tag, when you include this tag in your JSP, you gain access to several variables ...
Liferay Theme Objects For JSPs
Liferay Theme Objects For JSPs When you include the tag in your JSP, you gain access to several Liferay theme objects via variables. These objects are described in the table below: ...
Using Liferay Util HTML Top
Using Liferay Util HTML Top The HTML top tag is not a self-closing tag. The content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is moved to the tag. When something is passed using this...
Using Liferay Util Include
Using Liferay Util Include The include tag lets you include other JSP files in your portlet's JSP, theme, or web content. This can increase readability as well as provide separation of concerns for...
Using Liferay Util HTML Bottom
Using Liferay Util HTML Bottom The HTML bottom tag is not a self-closing tag. Content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is moved to the bottom of the tag. When something is passed...
Using Liferay Util Param
Using Liferay Util Param The param tag lets you set a parameter for an included JSP page. This configuration requires two JSPs. JSP A, the main view of the app, includes JSP B and sets its...
Using Localized Messages in an MVC Portlet
Using Localized Messages in an MVC Portlet Liferay's localization framework is for creating localized messages in your MVC portlet. Deploy the Sample Code Then, follow these steps: Download...
React Component Utilities Reference
React Component Utilities Reference Several useful tools are available to help you build high-performance components and applications in Liferay DXP using React: frontend-js-react-web module ...
PortletMVC4Spring Configuration Files
PortletMVC4Spring Configuration Files A PortletMVC4Spring application has these descriptors, Spring contexts, and properties files in its WEB-INF folder: web.xml → Web application descriptor ...
Using a JSP and MVC Portlet
Using a JSP and MVC Portlet An easy way to start developing a web application is to add markup to a JSP file and render it using a portlet Java class. The W3E7 example application demonstrates...