Posted by azinna on December 27, 2012 at 3:40am
First: great CMS! Just took the plunge ten days ago and it's been a good immersion.
One issue: I can't seem to produce tabbed content within-a-page exactly as we see here: [WEBMASTER: link removed at author's request]
I have the same theme as above (Eloquent) and so thought going through Views would make it happen. But nothing shows. I think the documentation here assumes several steps: http://views-help.doc.logrus.com/help/views/menu. So does anyone have their own successful step-by-step (non-coding )? Just to get a set of tabs on the page as clean, elegant and unobtrusive as the example.
Many thanks,
~A
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Quick Tabs
The non-coding way, and the most flexible way, would be to use the Quick Tabs module.
For a basic walk through the configuration have a look at this video.
Hope that helps
JK
QuickTabs & Tab Style
Thank you, JK.
QuickTabs is the most straightforward to use, though its tabs aren't showing up now. Trying to troubleshoot why. QT had worked yesterday morning when I was going through several module options. It was my one moment of success, though the tab designs there conflicted with OpenScholar's Eloquent theme.
So do the tabs in the example above actually need coding? Just hoping there's an in-built OS or Drupal 6 feature to activate.
~A
QuickTabs & Tab Style
Did eventually get QuickTabs to work again. For newbies using OpenScholar: your Block configurations need to be directly associated with the theme you're using. If it isn't the OS default theme, do find and select it among all the text at the top of the Blocks List screen.
Meanwhile, none of the QT tab styles make for a clean, natural fit with the Eloquent theme. See how no style comes out: [WEBMASTER: Link removed at author's request]
If anyone knows of a way I can make this happen do tell: [WEBMASTER: Link removed at author's request]
Many thanks,
~A
Styling
Styling is easily configurable using CSS - you don't have to define all the styles, rather just override the elements you want to change. You can create a sub-theme of Eloquent then modify the relevant properties in the css file or alternatively use the CSS Injector module.
Your theme will have css styles defined for the primary tabs, so one of the ways you can do this is to select the unstyled option in Quick Tabs and then add the relevant classes to the styles for the primary tabs in the css file and hey presto your Quick Tabs should be styled exactly like the theme's default tabs (you may need to account for differences in the html markup).
Hope that helps
JK
Styling
Code! Egads. See man run. :-)