create a template variable for different pages

hi i have a question

I have 1 template
and i want that every page loads his own image in the template using <img /> tags.
like for home it need home.jpg
for about about.jpg

etc.

can someone please tell me how ?

Quick way of doing it add this to your template :

Then use the description TV in your documents for the name of the image i.e. home, portfolio etc. etc.
Or create a new TV if you don’t want to use the description TV

Or simply use [*alias*]. Thus,

would produce

<img src="assets/images/home.jpg>

Can I use this trick in my CSS?

background: #fff url(assets/templates/site/images/[*alias*].jpg) no-repeat;

I don’t think you can do that trick in the CSS, since the CSS is included and not parsed by MODx

pierun is correct but you could try adding the CSS as an inline style in your template e.g.

I believe this would then get parsed and returned correctly, though I haven’t tested it.

Thanks a lot pierun and bunk...
I will give this a try tomorrow first thing....
today I have to watch the Euro Final!

That’s still over two hours away!
Plenty of time to finish your site

Quote from: pierun at Jun 29, 2008, 05:31 AM

I don’t think you can do that trick in the CSS, since the CSS is included and not parsed by MODx

You can actually use a custom content type and a blank template to create CSS files that are parsed by MODx.