Aldrich: Adding page content
- Todd McGill
The main content of a page is comprised of one or more content groups. While each content group can be thought of as a page section, that semantic meaning isn’t actually attributed to content groups by the template. This allows you to craft (non-semantic) page sections from multiple content groups to meet your design needs.
You can create as many content groups as you need.
→ Details: Proliferating Data Definition items
Semantic page sections are defined with the <section> element and convey specific meaning about the structure of your page to assistive technologies, search engines, and such. They’re great to use in general, but leveraging them here would impose undesirable tradeoffs with regard to page design and layout flexibility.
Group ID and classes
These fields are useful for identifying areas of your page when applying custom CSS or JavaScript. The Group ID field accepts only a single value, whereas the Group classes will accept multiple values separated by a space.
The Group ID field can also be used to create anchors used for linking within a page.
Group ID values must be unique within a page. There isn’t any enforcement of this in Cascade and the effects of reusing an ID value in multiple places on a page may not be immediately obvious when viewing the page, but weird things can happen if you do.
How do you want to add the content?
Selection | What this means | What this triggers |
|---|---|---|
Layout builder | The content group real estate will be divided up using the template’s layout builder function. | Causes the Row Data Definition group to display. |
Block | The content group will be defined by a layout block. | Causes the Layout Data Definition field to display. |
WYSIWYG | The content group is populated via an inline WYSIWYG. | Causes the Content Data Definition field to display. |
I want to use the layout builder
Carve up your content group and drop in widgets!
→ Details: Layout builder pattern
I want to use a block
Add your content to a layout block and assign the block here.
→ Details: Layouts
I want to use a WYSIWYG
You have simple content needs and you don’t want to fuss with creating and managing widgets or layouts. Enter your content directly into the WYSIWYG.
To be continued….
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