By qwertyjjj on

I have created a book page called Products.
I have created child pages called Books, Music, etc. but I want the creat an html link to these child pages.
All the child pages are appearing at the bottom of the book and I can't delete them.
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Bobby1290 commented

This is the default Drupal behavior.

-You can set them to "nodisplay" in the css file.
-You can override the book page so that it does not output the book navigation (see http://drupal.org/theme-guide/6) or override all book navigation in your theme.

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qwertyjjj commented

What would I do after that?
Just create an html anchor to the actual child page?

I don;t mind the book navigation if I could add description text next the to the child link but I can't.

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Bobby1290 commented

Yes, you could just create an html anchor to the actual child page.

You could also add description text next the to the child link by overriding the book page theme. In that case you would have to do some coding.

Good Luck.

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qwertyjjj commented

There's no option in the theme to turn off book navigation.
Any ideas on how to? I only want it displayed on book pages, not the fron page.
The user guide seems a bit complex involving programming.

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Bobby1290 commented

Noone said there was an option to turn off book navigation in the theme.

I said you could override the book theming function to not display them
OR
make them "nodisplay" with css.

Yes, as stated before, this requires some coding.

You could make simple pages and interlink them any way you want (html anchors) and be done with it, but if you want to use a book structure, this is how it works , and this is how you can override its output.

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qwertyjjj commented

Well...I want the book theme on the page that starts and has subpages but the book theme is also displayed on my front page, which doesn't make any sense.
Turning it off in the CSS will turn it off on all pages won't it?

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Bobby1290 commented

If you have a book page as your front page ...

I think you should just put up a normal page(on/as your front page), and from there link into the relevant (book) pages as you wish.

An example of how that would work is http://drupal.org/handbooks (normal page) with html links and descriptions into books.

Other setups may require theming (coding).

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qwertyjjj commented

The front page is a normal page but at the bottom it lists a book navigation menu...
eg
http://www.spelpro.co.uk/CMS/
and if you go to products I want descriptions with the links way down the page but it won't list them

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Bobby1290 commented

Okeeee,

You enabled the "book navigation" block to show on the front page, go to Administer>>Site building>>Blocks and cofigure that block to NOT appear on the front page, or any pages where it is not needed, conversely only show it where needed.

As a matter of fact you seem to have enabled it for all pages (see http://www.spelpro.co.uk/CMS/?q=node/4), which is unnecessary.

Please go through http://drupal.org/getting-started, and for this case http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/block.