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[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#126954

How do I add new <div> positions to a J1.5 template?

Also, what happened to the “View Inline with Positions” option within the Control Panel?

[Menalto Friend MenaltoJoin date: May 2007Posts: 4736Downloads:0Uploads:43 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 531 times in 361 posts]

#243238

Where and what do yo gonna put in that div?

Extensions>Template Manager, pick the template and press Edit, there on top right you have a nice button called Preview you can press on to get a look of the template

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#243241

Yes, you can look at the template, but it’s the actual site – not like the J 1.0.x “View Inline With Positions” option where it displayed only the div containers of the template. I want to add a position – that will be a custom-mod – within the header section. With the previous “View Inline with Positions” option, you could make sure that your changes worked, because the div container would be there.

Is it a matter of simply adding a <position>module</position> in order in the xml file,
and then styling it with a corresponding css rule?

[swissvista Friend swissvistaJoin date: August 2007Posts: 44Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#243278

on front end you can add this: ?tp=1
http://edenite.in2globus.com/index.php?tp=1
http://www.yoursite.com/?tp=1

as you can see there is no position for Login, do you know how to insert it ?

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#243290

That’s a neat little trick.

I’m still trying to figure out how to add positions in a J1.5 template.

:((

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#243360

anyone ??

anyone ??

bueller ??

bueller ??

:((

[Menalto Friend MenaltoJoin date: May 2007Posts: 4736Downloads:0Uploads:43 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 531 times in 361 posts]

#243361

Just a quick one here for ya.
This code here will add a module position called “tcraw” to the template with no styling.


<?php if ($this->countModules('tcraw')) { ?>
<div id="ja-menalto">
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="tcraw" style="raw"/>
</div>
<?php } ?>

This you can place anywhere in the index.php, but the final result will depends on where you place it and this here which you
should add into the css file of the template:


#ja-menalto {
width: 500px;
height: 100px;
}
The above css will give you a module that is 500px wide and 100px high.
This css will give you a module that is same width and height as above, but this have a margin on 10px around on all 4 sides:


#ja-menalto {
width: 500px;
height: 100px;
margin: 10px;
}

I could continue here for the rest of the day,week,month to explain about the css and what you can do about it, but you got some
quick steps to try out.

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1. TomC

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#243364

So then, it is essentially the same as it was in Joomla 1.0.x, right?

That’s what I was trying to figure out. I thought I had read somewhere that there was something different one had to do within the xml file to add a position within a J1.5 template. If this isn’t the case, then I’m all set.

[Menalto Friend MenaltoJoin date: May 2007Posts: 4736Downloads:0Uploads:43 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 531 times in 361 posts]

#243367

You also need to add
<position>tcraw</position>
into the xml file, but you can see there is a few changes in the code.

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1. TomC

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#243382

Okay, I feel better now . . . I thought it might be a whole new whacky 1.5 process.

:p

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