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JCB! Templates

high-level wrappers for your display logic

What Are JCB Templates?

JCB Templates provide modular, reusable view structures for rendering HTML output in Joomla components.
They are used within both site views and custom admin views, functioning as highโ€‘level wrappers for your display logic.

  • Layouts โ€” smaller reusable view fragments
  • Other Templates โ€” to nest and reuse structures
  • PHP Logic & HTML โ€” for dynamic rendering

Why Use Templates in JCB?

Templates help you organize and modularize how your component's output is rendered. They offer:

  • Clear and reusable structure across views
  • Easier maintenance and visual consistency
  • The ability to nest layouts and embed templates
  • Override support for custom behaviors

How Do You Manage Templates in JCB?

Templates are managed directly in the Templates tab within JCB's GUI.

  1. Click Init in the Templates section.
  2. Select the repository you want to pull from.
  3. Choose the Templates you'd like to import.
  • Reset any Template to refresh it from the repo
  • Push updates back if you maintain this repository
  • Or Fork the repo to maintain your own version of templates

Index of JCB Templates

All used in Joomla Component Builder โ€“ Source โ€“ Mirror โ€“ Download