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Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development

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Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development

Overview of this book

Free, open-source, flexible, and scalable, TYPO3 is one of the most powerful PHP content management systems. It is well suited for creating intranets and extranets for the enterprise. While providing an easy-to-use web interface for non-technical authors and editors of content, its messaging and workflow system enable shared authoring and collaboration. TYPO3 provides flexible and powerful interfaces for both content editors and administrators, giving them full control of the core aspects the system. However for developers who need to customize the system, TYPO3 offers a powerful configuration language called TypoScript. Good knowledge of TypoScript is really a prerequisite for implementing complex applications with TYPO3 and gives developers full control over the configuration of TYPO3 and its template engine. TypoScript enables the complete output template to be created and manipulated, giving you full control over the layout of the site. TypoScript also allows you to integrate dynamic contents, JavaScript-based menus, Flash, Graphics, etc. with ease. You have maximum control over the design of the website and can control all options that would otherwise be addressed by HTML-simple text output, formatting, and much more. TypoScript also allows you to generate graphics at run time and display different content dynamically.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development
Credits
About the Author
Preface

Creating Barrier-Free TYPO3 Content Elements


How barrier free is the content offered by TYPO3? This section takes a look at this issue and points out where improvements are needed to get a true barrier-free website.

Tables

When it comes to barrier freedom in websites, tables are a touchy subject. The following table illustrates how intricate the definition for barrier-free tables is. All of the aspects that have to be considered when creating tables are detailed.

Tag/attribute

Description

<caption>

This attribute assigns a header to the table.

<th>

This identifies a cell as a header cell.

<thead>

Defines the header of the table.

<tfoot>

Defines the footer of the table.

<tbody>

Defines the body of the table.

abbr

This attribute inside data or header cells allows you to create abbreviations for the respective cells.

headers

This attribute assigns a column or a row of data cells to a header cell.

scope="col"

This attribute is...