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title: "Feature: A showcase page per element and per variant"
manual: "Frontend Theme for Extension Development"
version: "main"
source: "Changelog/2.0/Feature-ShowcaseSections.rst"
modified: "2026-09-17T04:52:50+00:00"
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# Feature: A showcase page per element and per variant

## Description

The showcase set `theme-demo` \- see [Feature: A seeded showcase of every element](Feature-SeededShowcaseTree.html#feature-seeded-showcase-tree) \-
grows from one page per family of content elements to one page per element:

| Page | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| **Core elements** (`/elements/core`) and one page below it per classic content element, at `/elements/core/<CType>` | **Header** in every level and alignment, **Text & Images** in each of its ten image positions, **Text & Media**, **Images** in one to four columns, **Bullet List** in every layout and list type, **Table** in every table class, **File Links** in every display type, **Divider**, **Plain HTML** and **Insert Records**. |
| **Frames** (`/elements/frames`) | Every frame, every space before and after, and every header alignment and look of the **Appearance** tab, one element each. |
| **Typography** (`/typography`) and its pages **Text**, **Lists**, **Tables**, **Quotes and code** and **Article** | The typography of the theme as an editor produces it, from rich text and content elements: headings inside a text, the inline semantics, the alignments and styles of the rich text preset, lists and tables of the rich text next to the elements, quotations, code blocks, and a long article that uses all of them. |

Three sections are in the main navigation: **Elements**,
**Typography**, and the component library on **Styleguide**
with the form showcase on **Forms**, which used to be left out of every
menu. The pages of a section are its sub pages, two levels deep in the main
navigation and in the sub navigation of the section. **Empty page**,
which exists to show the default layout, left the menus instead: it is reached
by its URL and from the theme elements, and as a sixth top level entry it
pushed the site title of the header onto a second line on a wide screen.

On a wide screen the section index of the styleguide stands beside the
sections and stays in view while they scroll past; on a narrow one it is the
list of links above them.

The rich text of the typography pages is written into the database the way a
backend save writes it, so the processing of the installation's rich text
preset applies to it. With the preset of the theme everything on the pages
survives; it was not typed into the editor, and several parts need its source
view.

## Impact

The set declares more uids: pages 30 to 39 and 50 to 56, and their content
elements at the page uid times 100 plus the position, for example `3502`.
An installation importing `theme-demo` needs those uids free as well.

The new pages skip decades on purpose. The development instances mirror the
showcase with every uid moved by 1000, which puts the mirror of the content of
a page on the uids of the content of the page ten uids further; see the rule at
the top of the scenario file.