Here is a neat little trick I picked up last Friday at the Joomla! 1.5 bootcamp in Austin led by Johan Janssens.

In Joomla! 1.5, if you simply want to display your component without any modules and without your template styles, all you have to do is add "?tmpl=component" or "&tmpl=component" to the end of the URL, depending on whether or not there are already other parameters on the end of the URL.

For example, if you just want to view the component on the home page of the new community.joomla.org site, you simply add "?tmpl=component" to the URL like this: http://community.joomla.org/?tmpl=component.

This trick is really useful for template designers because you can isolate the HTML used in a specific component, so you can determine how best to set up your CSS for styling that component.

Enjoy!

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written by Thanks for the tip, July 23, 2008

Thanks for the great tip on styling the componet this will be utilized pretty soon when do some additional modifications to my coupon site.
Thanks again

-wade

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written by mozami, July 24, 2008

Just what the doctor ordered - thanks Cory! I was looking just the other day!

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written by Johan Janssens, July 25, 2008

Hi Cory,

Great to see you picked up a new trick at the bootcamp. By the way did you know that if you add tp=1 you can see the template positions outlined ?

Cheers,

Johan

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written by Joomla Reservation Software, August 12, 2008

Good idea, havent played around with Joomla 1.5 too much guess I need to

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written by Gabe, September 29, 2008

You can also add no_html=1 to remove all template HTML, and just show the component's output.

In Joomla1.0 the equivalent of tmpl=component is to use index2.php in the URL path.

eg: joomlasite.com/index2.php

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written by shan, October 05, 2008

so... why doesn't it work with this site???

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written by Cory, October 06, 2008

This site was built with Joomla! 1.0, and this trick only works in Joomla! 1.5.

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written by Syahadat, November 04, 2008

Thanks, I didn't know we could do that in joomla 1.5.

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no template on component layout
written by kastri, April 03, 2009

New way Joomla! 1.5 : index.php?option=com_mycomponent&tmpl=component

search & U shall find
http://blog.joomlatools.eu/2008/01/joomla-15-generating-raw-ouput.html

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Thanks
written by joomla develop site, May 03, 2009

Hi,

its a good tips. I'm a web designer. Thank you

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Another Method
written by John R., August 04, 2009

Another way to display a component w/o a template is using:

JRequest::setVar('tmpl', 'component');

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