How to Create Style for Standard Joomla Module
Sometimes you may wish to use non-standard appearance of a standard Joomla module. This can be done by creation a style for the module.
How you can create a style?
It is very simple and requires minimum of your time. Just create ../template/html/module_name/default.php file with html code of page layout.
There is a trick here: you can use default.php file with standard style of the module as a basis for you own style.
So, to create a style for the module, you should:
- Create html folder within ../templates; create another folder there and name it by the module’s name (for example, mod_login).
- Copy ../modules/mod_login/tmpl/default.php to ../template/html/module_name/;
- Edit ../template/html/mod_login/default.php to get the desired appearance of the module.
Note: make sure that module name in ../template/html/module_name is the same as in the ../modules/module_name.
The created style will be automatically applied to the module. If there will no default.php file in ../template/html/mod_login/, Joomla will use standard style from ../modules/mod_login/tmpl/default.php.
