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JustinBannister
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12 years ago

Editing Common Header

So I'm trying to redo my entire header, but I can't seem to find out where the exact HTML is. I see this user-navigation inside my header page selected instudio, but I want to get into the hard coded version to manipulate the entire thing. Is this possible?

  • PaoloT's avatar
    PaoloT
    12 years ago

    Hi Justin,

     

    there are a few things that can be referred as "the header" depending on what you are referring to

     

    • For each skin - you have an associated header. This is normally the very common header across all of your pages using a speicif skin (typically corporate navigation links for a community embedded within multiple web properties)
    • For each quilt - you can include an Header within it. This would be really the community's header. Normally you would define your header as a nestable quilt so that you define it once and include in the quilts that require it.

    If instead you want to override the behaviour of the standard Lithium component "user-navigation" , then you can normally use the override metodology to tweak its behaviour but you normally cannot change all the internals of it - maybe in that case creating a custom component is the right way.

     

    I hope that I gave you some insight on what you need to do :-)

     

    Thanks,

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    PaoloT
    Lithium Alumni (Retired)
    12 years ago

    Hi Justin,

     

    there are a few things that can be referred as "the header" depending on what you are referring to

     

    • For each skin - you have an associated header. This is normally the very common header across all of your pages using a speicif skin (typically corporate navigation links for a community embedded within multiple web properties)
    • For each quilt - you can include an Header within it. This would be really the community's header. Normally you would define your header as a nestable quilt so that you define it once and include in the quilts that require it.

    If instead you want to override the behaviour of the standard Lithium component "user-navigation" , then you can normally use the override metodology to tweak its behaviour but you normally cannot change all the internals of it - maybe in that case creating a custom component is the right way.

     

    I hope that I gave you some insight on what you need to do :-)

     

    Thanks,