For this sort of thing, here is what you will probably want to do:
Put the spotlight-2 in that loadblock line in the physical location where you want the two-position spotlight to load (default-content-left.php or whatever)
Go to the template in the admin backend and modify that to show 2 positions, using the 1-6 block choices presented there and choose the two module positions that you want to show there.
Put your content in those two module positions – using Custom HTML or whatever is appropriate for that content.
This will automatically put them spread into the two columns (the width of each being specified by the “responsive view” settings you have in the template layout on the back end.
Then in your custom.css file (in the templatest3_bs3_blankcss folder), add something like this:
div.t3-sl-2 {
padding-top: 0;
padding-bottom: 0;
}
Since the default padding is 40px on the top and bottom of a spotlight area, this will override that. Adjust according to how much spacing you want above and below accordingly.
In the event that you want to do a {loadposition whatever} in your modules, you need to set that module to process plugins – this goes for other plugins as well as the loadposition. You do this in the module settings under the options tab in “prepare content” set to Yes (default is no) so that it actually processes that directive instead of showing the text.
In this case, it seems that you wouldn’t load a position into another position though, so if you are using Custom HTML modules, just put your content into them directly and no article or {loadposition} would be necessary,
Does all that make sense? Does it help?
Scott Lavelle - Technical Resource Solutions, LLC
Certified Joomla Administrator
fuzmic 9 years, 4 months ago.
