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The standard Joomla 1.5 breadcrumbs display can be quite plain. Here's how to brighten it up a bit. 
You can add a text separator via the mod_breadcrumbs dialogue but it still doesn't do much for the display. You can also paste in a full url to an image file, for example - <img src="http://gjcwebdesign/templates/gjcwebdesign/images/arrow.png" border="0" alt="arrow" /> If you want to add a bit of text before the "Home" (believe me, loads of people have no idea what that list of words is at the top of the page!) then open joomla_root/modules/mod_breadcrumbs/tmpl/default.php and add straight after the access restriction - <?php // no direct access defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access'); ?> You are here: <img src="http://gjcwebdesign.com/templates/gjcwebdesign/images/arrow.png" border="0" alt="arrow" /> <?php for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i ++) : The "last" entry in the breadcrumb can be individually styled by adding a span id as below.. 13. echo ' '.$separator.' '; 14. } else if ($params->get('showLast', 1)) { // when $i == $count -1 and 'showLast' is true 15. echo '<span id="last">'.$list[$i]->name.'</span>'; and style it in your css sheet. The "You are here:" could also be: <?php echo JText::_( 'HERE')?>for a multilingual site. Ad the translation in the language/en-GB/en-GB.mod_breadcrumbs.ini . You can style the breadcrumb containing div with a background colour or image, just look at the template code to find the div surrounding the line jdoc:include type="modules" name="breadcrumb" or check it in Firebug. Much nicer....  |
| Last Updated on Thursday, 26 November 2009 09:59 |
