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i am new in Joomla. i found this code in my Template:

<jdoc:include type="modules" name="search" style="xhtml">

but i do not understand , whats this style="xhtml" refer ? in my other joomla template , i see below code: 

<jdoc:include type="modules" name="footer" style="e4jstyle">

so, whats this style means ? i change this style name, but didn't see any change.

Please, can anyone explain this code?

Gergo Erdosi
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This is known as module chrome and it's an easy way to wrap extra html around the module output so you can style the front-end result. There are a number of different options, here's one reference to get you started: http://docs.joomla.org/Standard_Module_Chromes

It's not on the list above, but one I like to use for Joomla 3 is style="html5"

EDIT
This will get you started if you want to roll your own module styles: http://docs.joomla.org/Applying_custom_module_chrome

Good luck!

David Taiaroa
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  • Thanks David for reference. but i didn't see style="e4jstyle" can we make custom style="anything"? or all i need to call every time this reference ?? thanks .. – hassan May 24 '14 at 22:05
  • @hassan, some sytles are built-in to your Joomla installation, and then you can design your own. style="e4jstyle" will be a custom style defined in your Joomla template. See my edit above for details of how to do this. – David Taiaroa May 25 '14 at 00:20