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How to view just your component in Joomla! 1.5

Written by Cory

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

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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Thanks for the tip: ... http://consumercowboy.com

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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July 23, 2008
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mozami: ... http://www.mozami.net

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

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July 24, 2008
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Johan Janssens: ... http://www.joomlatools.org

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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July 24, 2008
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Joomla Reservation Software: ... http://webbformatique.com

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

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