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.
1. Look at the menu to the left of the template surrounded by a colored, rounded border.
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>
3. This is the
rounded
Module Chrome. Another Module Chrome isnone
, which applies nothing around your content—xhtml
wraps the module in adiv
tag with theclass
attribute referencing the name of the module:<div class="moduletable_menu"> <!-- module content --...