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#169775

Hello all,

I’m currently customising the JA Erio template, and I’m very impressed with it so far. I’ve managed to make most of the changes required but have hit a gap in my knowledge in regard to the ‘footnav’ module position.

I want it to replicate the ‘topnav’ module position. On first moving the menu from the ‘topnav’ to the ‘footnav’ module position I get the following:

Next step I took was to copy all the ‘#ja-topnav’ css code from the base ‘template.css’ file and paste it, replacing the ‘#ja-topnav’ with ‘#ja-footnav’. While I could change text colours and other minor style changes, I couldn’t move it to a similar position on the page to ‘topnav’.

Is there any way that I can fully replicate the positioning of ‘topnav’ with ‘footnav’? I can’t imagine that this would be a unique change to my site, a lot of sites store minor things such as a site map and privacy policy in a small footer menu.

Thanks for any assistance rendered; I’d be happy to write up a small tutorial for this if I can get it working.

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[n6rej Friend n6rejJoin date: November 2006Posts: 1040Downloads:0Uploads:63 Thanks: 79 Thanked: 145 times in 90 posts]

#419902

here is the default layout for 1.5
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layout name="desktop">
<!--Extra css load for this layout-->
<stylesheets>
</stylesheets>
<blocks name="top" style="xhtml">
<block name="absolute" type="modules" style="raw">absolute</block>
<block name="top-panel" type="modules" style="raw">top-panel</block>
<block name="mainnav" type="mainnav"></block>
<block name="header" type="header"></block>
<block name="topbanner" type="modules">topbanner</block>
<block name="cpanel" type="usertools/cpanel"></block>
<block name="slideshow" type="modules">slideshow</block>
<block name="topsl" type="spotlight">user1,user2,user3,user4</block>
<block name="topsl1" type="spotlight">user5,user6,user7,user8</block>
</blocks>
<blocks name="middle" colwidth="26">
<block name="left1" width="22.94">left</block>
<block name="right1">right</block>
<block name="content-mass-bottom">content-mass-bottom</block>
</blocks>
<blocks name="bottom" style="xhtml">
<block name="botsl" type="spotlight">contentslider</block>
<block name="botsl1" type="spotlight">user9,user10,user11,user12</block>
<block name="botsl2" type="spotlight">user13,user14,user15,user16</block>
<block name="navhelper" type="navhelper"></block>
<block name="footer" type="footer"></block>
</blocks>
</layout>

and then for 1.7
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layout name="desktop">
<!--Extra css load for this layout-->
<stylesheets>
</stylesheets>
<blocks name="top" style="xhtml">
<block name="absolute" type="modules" style="raw">absolute</block>
<block name="top-panel" type="modules" style="raw" main-inner="1">top-panel</block>
<block name="mainnav" type="mainnav" main-inner="1"></block>
<block name="header" type="header" main-inner="1"></block>
<block name="cpanel" type="usertools/cpanel"></block>
<block name="slideshow" type="modules">slideshow</block>
<block name="topsl" type="spotlight" main-inner="1">user1,user2,user3,user4</block>
<block name="topsl1" type="spotlight" main-inner="1">user5,user6,user7,user8</block>
</blocks>
<blocks name="middle" colwidth="26">
<block name="left1" width="22.94">position-7</block>
<block name="right1">position-5</block>
<block name="content-mass-bottom">content-mass-bottom</block>
</blocks>
<blocks name="bottom" style="xhtml">
<block name="botsl" type="spotlight">contentslider</block>
<block name="botsl1" type="spotlight" main-inner="1">user9,user10,user11,user12</block>
<block name="botsl2" type="spotlight" main-inner="1">user13,user14,user15,user16</block>
<block name="navhelper" type="navhelper" main-inner="1"></block>
<block name="footer" type="footer"></block>
</blocks>
</layout>

please note there is no footnav in either… however if you look @ 1.7 you’ll see “havhelper” please note the main-inner=”1″ this matches mainnav
I believe you’ll find that this is the missing link 😀

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1. tef_lucas

[tef_lucas Friend tef_lucasJoin date: October 2011Posts: 6Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 5]

#419911

Thanks for the quick reply n6rej.

I realised that footnav (or topnav) weren’t present in the default layout. However, they can both be seen using the module positions command (?tp=1) and both are present in the ‘header.php’ and ‘footer.php’ files in the ‘/blocks’ folder.

[PHP]<?php if($this->countModules(‘footnav’)) : ?>
<div class=”ja-footnav”>
<jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”footnav” />
</div>
<?php endif; ?>[/PHP]

Placing a menu in the ‘topnav’ formats correctly as demonstrated in the JA Erio demo (can be found above the ‘Search’ module). I just want to replicate this module positioning in the footer.

Sorry if I misunderstood your answer. I’m still learning the T3 Framework and doing so more by trial and error than actual CSS/PHP knowledge.

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#419916

me 2 dont’ worry… have you seen the wiki? I’ll study this more carefully t/m when I’m wide awake. I think it will be a matter of proper styling in the block statement is all. From the code it looks like your using J! 1.5 also is that correct?
Hopefully khoand will see this and give a better response then me… he’s quite sharp about this.

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1. tef_lucas

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#419917

I’m using Joomla 1.7.

I might try installing the quickstart and seeing if there is anything that can help me there in the meantime.

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#419918

are you using a clean 1.7 and then adding the template seperately? its fine just want to know your particular config.

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1. tef_lucas

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#419926

Yes, I just started with a clean Joomla 1.7.1 install and installed the template, plug-in, etc separately.

All the changes I have made so far have been to the CSS, and I have contained all these changes to the one new custom theme. Seemed like the cleanest way to do it, touching none of the base template itself.

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#420014

thats exactly the correct way 😀 Overrides FTW

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