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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

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Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook

Overview of this book

Templates in Joomla! provide a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want either using a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. Although it sounds like an easy task to build and maintain templates, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and customize templates to meet your needs perfectly.Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook consists of a series of self-contained step-by-step recipes that cover everything from common tasks such as changing your site's logo or favicon and altering color schemes, to custom error pages and template overrides. It starts off with the basics of template design and then digs deep into more complex concepts. It will help you make your site more attractive and user-friendly. You will integrate your site with various social media such as Twitter and YouTube; make your site mobile-friendly with the help of recipes for creating and customizing mobile spreadsheets; and use miscellaneous tricks and tips to get the most out of your website. You get all of this in a simple recipe format that guides you quickly through the steps and explains how it all happened.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Understanding Module Chrome in Joomla!


One element of Joomla! templates that is very specific to Joomla! is Module Chrome. Module Chrome allows you as a Joomla! template designer to have greater control over the code that surrounds each module that Joomla! outputs.

Getting ready

View your Joomla! website in your browser.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Look at the menu to the left of the template surrounded by a colored, rounded border.

  1. 2. If you view the source of the home page in the rhuk_milkyway template, you'll see that the corresponding XHTML for this is surrounded by "Module Chrome":

    <div class="module_menu">
    <div>
    <div>
    <div>
    <!—rounded content-->
    </div>
    </div>
    </div>
    </div>
    
  2. 3. This is the rounded Module Chrome. Another Module Chrome is none, which applies nothing around your content—xhtml wraps the module in a div tag with the class attribute referencing the name of the module:

    <div class="moduletable_menu">
    <!-- module content --...