Fluid Styled Content Layouts

This guide describes how you can extend your Content Block templates with the layout from the fluid_styled_content system extension.

You probably know, that fluid styled content (from now on abbreviated FSC) adds special wrappers for its content elements like this:

<div id="c32" class="frame frame-default frame-type-textpic frame-layout-0">

These are very helpful, because you can use the anchor id and spacing classes of FSC. In order to wrap all your templates with such a layout you have to provide the FSC layout paths for lib.contentBlock.

Let's have a look at the contents of this TypoScript object:

As you can see lib.contentBlock is a FLUIDTEMPLATE TypoScript content object. This means you can override it with your own layout and partial root paths.

lib.contentBlock {
    partialRootPaths.0 < lib.contentElement.partialRootPaths.0
    layoutRootPaths.0 < lib.contentElement.layoutRootPaths.0

    settings < lib.contentElement.settings
}

By adding the FSC settings, these will also be available in your Content Block templates.

In order to use the standard FSC fields, you should include them as Basics in your config.yaml file. These are already shipped by Content Blocks.

name: vendor/fsc-test
title: FSC Element
basics:
  - TYPO3/Appearance
fields:
  - identifier: TYPO3/Header
    type: Basic

Now the setup is complete and all what's left to do is to use the newly available layout in your frontend.html templates.

<f:layout/>

<!-- This removes the <header> partial of FSC -->
<f:section name="Header"/>

<f:section name="Main">
    <!-- Your content -->
</f:section>

This is of course completely optional and you can just remove this per element if you need to. The additional empty <f:section name="Header"/> is important: This removes the <header> partial which FSC would add to your template. If you need this anyway, you can just remove it.