Feature idea: Page class attribute

Brian Rutledge

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Nov 17, 2016, 10:54:43 AM11/17/16

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In our templates, I'd like to be able to identify a page as being part of a section of the site, so that we can apply section-specific CSS. My initial thought on how to do this would be to add a class to the <body> tag, but I don't see an attribute on the Page model for this. What do y'all think of adding that? Is there another way to accomplish this in the django CMS ecosystem? I'd rather not define a new template for each section.

czpython

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Nov 17, 2016, 10:57:23 AM11/17/16

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Hello Brian,

You can use https://github.com/nephila/djangocms-page-tags for tagging pages

or build a custom solution using page extensions.

Daniele Procida

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Nov 18, 2016, 4:10:51 AM11/18/16

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I've done this with another application. It maintained a tree representing the structure of an institution, and each node of that tree could be attached to a page. So each page, and all of its descendants, knew they belonged to such-and-such department or office or body.

The application did a lot more besides. It might be overkill if identifying a page is all you need.

Daniele

Brian Rutledge

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Nov 18, 2016, 10:18:26 AM11/18/16

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Thanks for the ideas. I think djangocms-page-tags or a page extension is the right approach, but for now, I've got:

which renders the attribute value as "section-1/subsection-1/page-1". So, in my CSS, I can use:

[data-cms-path*="subsection-1"] {

}

to style section elements. Of course, this will break of the slugs change, or if they're different in Spanish, or if a section page exists outside of the tree. But it works for now.

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