Apply Specific HTML template to: taxonomy OR node-type OR module OR block

This can be done, although you'd need to be comfortable with some PHP code to do it. Here's the approach I would take off the top of my head.

In most cases, the templating happens in the current themes' page hook. So that is the place to add template switching logic. For example if your site was divided up into sections using taxonomies, you could switch templates based on the current pages' taxonomy term. This method would change the entire site design. It's much easier if you just want to make your nodes look differently.

Templates for blocks are easy as well. Viewing the source code of any Drupal page with blocks will reveal that each block is assigned an unique ID that can be controlled with CSS.

hi. ok, i figured out how to add to the node type to the class for styling nodes in xtemplate.

first, (in current CVS) you need to add a line in function "xtemplate_node" - roughly line #68 in xtemplate.theme (see arrow):

so that it now looks like this:

<code>  $xtemplate->template->assign(array(
	
        "submitted" => t("Submitted by %a on %b.",
                      array("%a" => format_name($node),
                            "%b" => format_date($node->created))),
        "link"      => url("node/$node->nid"),
        "title"     => $node->title,
        "author"    => format_name($node),
        "date"      => format_date($node->created),
        "sticky"    => ($main && $node->sticky) ? 'sticky' : '',
-->	"node_type"      => $node->type,
        "content"   => ($main && $node->teaser) ? $node->teaser : $node->body));

then, add lines (at roughly line #70 and #86) in xtemplate.xtpl so that the whole node markup looks like this (see arrows):

<code><!-- BEGIN: node -->

  <div class="node {sticky}">
--> <div class="{node_type}">
    <!-- BEGIN: picture -->
    <div class="picture">{picture}</div>
    <!-- END: picture -->
    <!-- BEGIN: title -->
    <h2 class="title"><a href="{link}">{title}</a></h2>
    <!-- END: title -->
    <span class="submitted">{submitted}</span>
    <!-- BEGIN: taxonomy -->
    <span class="taxonomy">{taxonomy}</span>
    <!-- END: taxonomy -->
    <div class="content">{content}</div>
    <!-- BEGIN: links -->
    <div class="links">» {links}</div>
    <!-- END: links -->
--> </div>
  </div>

<!-- END: node -->

then add

.blog {
border:1px solid red;
}

or whatever to your .css file and it should work.

now, you could add {node_type} to the node class - as in

<code><div class="node {node_type} {sticky}">
                  ^^^^^^^^^

it might be harder to style, but if you are using flexinode, it might be easier to style nodes this way.

i am working on styling by taxonomy now.

erik.

I just released a module called "sections", that allows themes per sections. The here mentioned feature can be implemented in an easy way in this module.

And if this solved you problem, would you be so kind to report back that it helped? This will help others whom are looking for the same solution.

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