Display Menu Module Title when menu module is in footer position Topic is solved

[davidspring]

I am using the default Cassiopeia template and I am trying to place a new bottom menu module in the footer position. The menu items display but the menu module title does not display. I can place a custom module in the footer position and the custom module title displays. I have look at the footer with the Inspector and I have read all 15,000 lines in the Cassiopeia template.css. I have also tried varying the Menu Module layout without success.

I have also tried to display the Main Menu module in the footer position with the title on. The Main Menu module will display vertically but the module title will not display. The Main Menu will display horizontally in the Cassiopeia Menu position. But the Main Menu module title will not display. However, the Main Menu Module Title will display when the module is placed in the right side bar.

Ironically when switching to the Helix Ultimate template and the menu module is in the footer position, the menu module title does display.

So my question is:
How do I get my Bottom Menu Title to display when the bottom menu is placed in the footer module position using the Cassiopeia template?

[mtgg]

It's normal for any module title not to appear when the module is displayed in the Footer position in Cassiopeia. It has nothing to do with CSS. If you want the module title to appear then you will have to create a template override.

Alternatively, you could write another module—a custom module—to display some text (e.g. "Main Menu") and have that module appear before some other module. If some other template, like Helix Ultimate, displays module titles then that's a design feature of that template. It's not a design feature of Cassiopeia.

I haven't seen any questions/solutions posted on the Joomla forum that might explain what how to code a footer override, sorry.

[Webdongle]

Link to the page with the menu module in the bottom position please. Also make sure Set Preview Module Positions is set to Enabled https://docs.joomla.org/Finding_module_ ... given_page

[Webdongle]

It's normal for any module title not to appear when the module is displayed in the Footer position in Cassiopeia. ...

Why would the settings of a menu module not apply to a menu module in the footer module position?

[davidspring]

Thanks for the suggestions. On further research, I was able to determine the source of the problem. Titles do not appear in the Cassiopeia footer module row for the following reason. Near the end of the cassiopeia index.php file, in the footer module row, is the following line:

<jdoc:include type="modules" name="footer" style="none" />

Meanwhile, all of the module rows that do display the title (for example, bottom-b) have this line:

<jdoc:include type="modules" name="bottom-b" style="card" />

Therefore, the solution is to create a child template and copy the parent index.php into the child template. Then change the footer style from none to card. Then click Save and Close. Problem solved… all the module titles including menu titles now appear in the Cassiopeia Child Template footer module row.

[Per Yngve Berg]

The Style can be overridden in the Module's Options. Bottom Option .

[Webdongle]

No need to create a child template for that. If you want more than one position for a menu just copy the menu and edit each copy accordingly.

[Mr. Wimpy]

As you figured the style="..." sets the... module style.
style="none" only displays the content of a module.

You can find the different styles under ~/layouts/chromes/
You can create overrides or create your own, just like everything else in Joomla.

Sure you can create a child template just to change a style.
Note: the footer position is loaded in index.php and error.php.

But you can also set a module style in the backend.

- Open or create a module
- Go to tab:Advanced
- At Module style select the style you like to use.
This will override the default style="...".