How to override /layouts/joomla/html/image.php layout file? Topic is solved

[Abatap]

Hello. Is this possible to override the /layouts/joomla/html/image.php file? Or any other layout file from the /layouts/joomla/html/ directory?

I've tried to place my override code file to /templates/TEMPLATE/html/layouts/joomla/html/ and to /templates/TEMPLATE/html/ but had no luck in Joomla! picking that up and instead it goes on with its stock image layout.

The funny thing is, when I include the image layout directly with something like the code snippet below then my override file gets properly included instead of the stock layout:

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<?php echo Joomla\CMS\Layout\LayoutHelper::render('joomla.html.image', array('src' => $itemImagePath, 'alt' => $itemImageAlt)); ?>

But if I try to render my image using the snippet below, it keeps using the stock layout:

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<?php echo Joomla\CMS\HTML\HTMLHelper::image($itemImagePath, $itemImageAlt); ?>

As for the official Joomla! documentation, it makes no mention of any exceptions to its layout overriding mechanism:
https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Layout_Overrides_in_Joomla

P.S. My Joomla! version is 3.10.12

[Webdongle]

Check your editor settings for what code it allows

[SharkyKZ]

It's just another oversight related to image handling in J4. In J3 the image rendering was done through HTMLHelper::image(). Internally it did not use layouts. Then in J4 someone decided to render images directly through layouts. This dumb change was backported to J3. Then J4 switched back to using HTMLHelper::image() which now used layouts internally (this is fine). But this changed was never backported to J3.

[Abatap]

I see. Thank you for a thorough explanation!