Hi,

In K2 v2.2 there are some mysterious blank spaces that prevent me from using class suffix for different styles on different pages. I tracked down one of them in templates\default\category.php: line 16 says

echo ' '.$this->params->get('pageclass_sfx'); ?>


but it should say:

echo ''.$this->params->get('pageclass_sfx'); ?>


This error creates the class itemListView _someSuffix instead of itemListView_someSuffix.

Similar occurs for the classes groupLeading and itemView in the K2 CSS. But these I cannot figure out where they are generated.

 

Is this a bug or what?

 

If this is confirmed as a bug within the code, the following files also display the same problem.
The 'bug' is a space between the apostrophe following echo ' '

File: category.php
Location: DOMAIN\com_k2\templates\default\category.php
Line: 16
Says: echo ' '.$this->params->get('pageclass_sfx'); ?>
should say: echo ''.$this->params->get('pageclass_sfx'); ?>

File: item.php
Location: DOMAIN\com_k2\templates\default\item.php
Line: 18
Says: if($this->item->params->get('pageclass_sfx')) echo ' '.$this->
should say: if($this->item->params->get('pageclass_sfx')) echo ''.$this->

File: category_item.php
Location: DOMAIN\com_k2\templates\default\category_item.php
Line: 19
Says: if($this->item->params->get('pageclass_sfx')) echo ' '.$this->item
should say: if($this->item->params->get('pageclass_sfx')) echo ''.$this->item

File: category_item_links.php
Location: DOMAIN\com_k2\templates\default\category_item_links.php
Line: 19
Says: if($this->item->params->get('pageclass_sfx')) echo ' '.$this->
should say: if($this->item->params->get('pageclass_sfx')) echo ''.$this->

File: latest.php
Location: DOMAIN\com_k2\templates\default\latest.php
Line: 16
Says: if($this->params->get('pageclass_sfx')) echo ' '.$this->
should say: if($this->params->get('pageclass_sfx')) echo ''.$this->

File: generic.php
Location: DOMAIN\com_k2\templates\generic.php
Line: 16
Says: if($this->params->get('pageclass_sfx')) echo ' '.$this->
should say: if($this->params->get('pageclass_sfx')) echo ''.$this->

File: user.php
Location: DOMAIN\com_k2\templates\user.php
Line: 16
Says: if($this->params->get('pageclass_sfx')) echo ' '.$this->
should say: if($this->params->get('pageclass_sfx')) echo ''.$this->

Maybe Tweet the devs to have a look.

I am not a PHP programmer so I am really unsure. I dont have any account on twitter, but I don't know if thats necessary?

Lefteris, just bumping this.
are the spaces between the ' ' symbols intended to be in the code or not?

Hi. I m not the one who built the template files but i think that the space is intended to be there. So the logic is that you can add an extra class and not a suffix. Of course you can change this on your own template files.

The problem is that when I put a class sufix like _someSuffix it will result in itemListView(space)_someSuffix, thus preventing the tag from using the css of itemListView(nospace)_someSuffix. As you say, it creates an extra class, but usually the Joomla class suffixes are combined. So there's a nota bene not to think of this as one usually does with Joomla suffixes. Or?

Rgds
--Mats

Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi. I m not the one who built the template files but i think that the space is intended to be there. So the logic is that you can add an extra class and not a suffix. Of course you can change this on your own template files.

Did this ever get clarified? I am having the exact same problem on this page:

theandygram.com/About-Andy/press.html

This appears to be putting a space in front of the _headlines suffix I have for k2ItemsBlock.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to modify the look of this module using the suffix?

Thanks
Andy

Sometimes it's somewhat hard to find (get) really clearifying answers in K2 matters. I suppose it's the nature of Open Source communities - many possibilities, many questions and sometimes you need a bit of luck to find the person who knows the particular question you are dealing with. This question is such and I have drawn the conclusion that the blank space is intended because that gives you the possiblity to assign several classes to a specific HTML tag, for example class="frontpage leftcolumn news". What's confusing is that the core Joomla module class suffix adds to the class="moduletable" attribute, for example class="moduletable_frontpage". This results, for example, in code looking like this:
< div class="moduletable_frontpage" >
< h3 >Header< /h3 >
< div id="k2ModuleBox32" class="k2ItemsBlock _frontpage" >

It's the behaviour that needs to be understood. I think it provides more possibilities to the styling, BUT it took me a while to get the hang of it.
Rgds

Hi Mats,

Thanks for your reply. I feel like the answer may be in your response but it's not clear to me how we apply a style to this. Would you mind clarifying or restating?

Many thanks,
Andy

OK Mats, I am very happy to report that I have figured it out. When you define the style you just need to do it by assigning two styles to it as follows:

div.k2ItemsBlock.Headlines ul li a.moduleItemTitle:hover {font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; line-height:135%}

Thanks so much Mats for your helpful hint.

Andy