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By Anonymous (not verified) on
I would like to be able to edit my H1 tags so that I decide the content that goes in them. Currently by default on each page Drupal is putting the page's title in the H1 tags. I would strongly prefer for the page title not to have H1 tags. I would like to be able to define them myself.
How can I do this? Is it possible
Thanks
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Check out your theme's
Check out your theme's page.tpl.php file.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks for the suggestion. Would you be able to advise me on what should be changed?
Thanks!
<h1 class="title"><?php
<h1 class="title"><?php print $title ?></h1>be sure to check how to intercept and override a default theme if you are not using a custom or contributed one.
Ok thats the bit I'd
Ok thats the bit I'd actually focussed on myself. But would you know what I should do with it? Bearing in mind ideally I don't want Drupal to generate an H1 tag and that I'd like to be able to input my own.
Thanks!
Well, if I'm understanding
Well, if I'm understanding your request, you could comment out the contents of the current h1 tag so that it doesn't appear on any page and then manually input your own on each page.
BTW: I'm not really sure why you'd want to do this, maybe further clarification might help.
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Thats exactly what i'd
Thats exactly what i'd like.
I'd like to do this so that I can actually choose what goes in my H1 titles. Sometimes I like to make them shorter or slightly different to my page title although making sure both contain important keyword.
Thank you
As basic as I'm sure this is
As basic as I'm sure this is I've still not managed to stop the H1 tags from being automatically places on my page...
Can anyone provide any further advice.
Thanks
What code did you put into
What code did you put into the file to make the change?
If you're going to edit the page.tpl.php file (and I'm not saying that's the way to go. It may be possible to do it in a theme function), basically, you need to
Thank you for going to this
Thank you for going to this effort. I have accomplished my goal!
Cheers
page-title is what you are
page-title is what you are looking for. It will create a new field in the node that will then be used to fill browser title bar. You effectively find your self with a "simple" title you can use for pathauto/general content title.. and another where you can add as many keywords to without making your site look like an lexicon ;)