pierzakp / magento2-Ho_Templatehints

H&O Magento 2 Advanced Template Hints module

H&O Magento 2 Advanced Template Hints module

Ho_Templatehints extends the default Magento template hints.

• Easily accessible with with mussle memory ?ath=1.
• Shows hints for Templates, AbstractBlocks (Blocks), Containers and UI Components.
• No layout interference: Using css outline instead of borders of other HTML elements, so it doesn't f'up the layout.

Installation

composer require ho-nl/magento2-templatehints
php bin/magento module:enable Ho_Templatehints
php bin/magento setup:upgrade

Development installation (git enabled)

Add the following to your composer.json file in Magento's root (repositories might already exists)

"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "vcs",
        "url": "[e-mail]:ho-nl/magento2-Ho_Templatehints.git"
    }
],

composer require ho-nl/magento2-templatehints "dev-master"
php bin/magento module:enable Ho_Templatehints
php bin/magento setup:upgrade

Usage

1. Set your Magento 2 installation to developer mode.
2. Add ?ath=1 to your URL to activate.
3. Open up your console in you Chrome/Firefox/Safari/IE devtools.
4. hold ⇧ (shift)
5. Hover over the element you wish to inspect
6. Voila! Hints everywhere!

Hints for hidden elements

You can't show hints for a hidden element, for that purpose there is hint($0):

//Select an element in the Elements panel in your devtools, it is now available with $0
hint($0)

Inner Workings

The module adds an additional html-attribute to the outer most element of a layout element.

Credits

Of course heavily inspired by Aoe_TemplateHints and a bit of love from H&O.