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Latest News Enhanced

Pro v4+

Themes

Style The overall look of a news item
Original Original
The default look
Original (Modern) Original (Modern)
An updated version of the original theme, using CSS Flexbox
Full Width Full Width
If the 'head' element is an image, the item width will be the same as the 'head' width
Full Width Overlap Overlap
The text shows over the 'head' element, which requires the 'head' element of the item to be an image. The content is restricted to the image's dimensions
Flexi Cover Flexi Cover
The text shows over the 'head' element, which requires the 'head' element of the item to be an image. There are no dimension restrictions
Download more styles Download more styles
CSS effect 1 (Boxed) CSS Effect 1 Boxed Separate download
CSS 3 animated layout. Image only head type.
Learn how to set it up
Please check the section 'Card styles' for more information
Color scheme An optional color scheme to apply to the style
Inherit
The colors are inherited from the template's colors
Denim color scheme Denim
A dark blue scheme
Earth color scheme Earth
A scheme with natural colors
Marine color scheme Marine
An ocean blue scheme
Pastels color scheme Pastels
A scheme using pastel colors
Portfolio color scheme Portfolio
A more modern scheme
Download more color schemes Download more schemes
Please check the section 'Color schemes' for more information

Theme overrides

Background color The overall background color
Border width The item's border width
Border radius The item's border radius
Border color The item's border color
Shadow The item's shadow. 
No shadow None
No shadow is applied
Small soft shadow Small
A small soft shadow is applied
Medium soft shadow Medium
A medium soft shadow is applied
Large soft shadow Large
A large soft shadow is applied
Small shadow Small
A small shadow is applied
Medium shadow Medium
A medium shadow is applied
Large shadow Large
A large shadow is applied

Warning When adding shadows, the item's content width is reduced with the space taken by the shadows. For instance, if item width is 300px and the shadow is 10px wide, the content width will be 300 - 10 - 10 = 280px.
Space to border The distance between the content of the item and it's outer limit

Space to border
Font color The item's font color. Leave blank to use the template's styling. Leave blank to use the template's or color theme's color
Link color The item's link color. Leave blank to use the template's styling. Leave blank to use the template's or color theme's color
Link hover color The item's link color when hovering over it. Leave blank to use the template's or color theme color's
Leading items text
Font size reference The font size in respect to the template used. The remaining of the item is based on that size
New Joomla 4
Title classes
The CSS classes that can be used to skin the title. For instance, using fw-bold will bold the title if the template is based on Bootstrap 5
Remaining items text
Font size reference The font size in respect to the template used. The remaining of the item is based on that size
New Joomla 4
Title classes
The CSS classes that can be used to skin the title. For instance, using fw-bold will bold the title if the template is based on Bootstrap 5
Head
Space around White space that surrounds the 'head' element (leave empty to keep the style's default)

Space around head
Body
Space around White space that surrounds the 'body' of the item (leave empty to keep the style's default)

Space around body
Information
Font The font for the blocs of information.

Joomla 4 The extension supports the GDPR-compliant web fonts from fonts.bunny.net. To select the service (Google is the default), go to the SimplifyYourWeb extensions System plugin and select the web font service you wish to use.
Font size The font size in comparison to the font size of reference
Line spacing The height (px or em) given to each line allowing spacing of the lines of information
Font color The text color.
New v4.13 When you do not select a color, the text color is the same as the introductory text
Font color over head The text color for information placed over the head (image or video)
Icons color The color of the icons, when icons are shown.
New v4.13 When you do not select a color, the icon color is the same as the introductory text
Icons color over head The color of the icons placed over the head (image or video), when icons are shown
Improve contrast When showing information over images, the text may be hard to read. Enable this functionality to add a background gradient and text shadow.

Before:
Before improving contrast
After:
after improving contrast
Read more link
Style The link style, following the theme default style or using Bootstrap
Bootstrap type The link type (as defined by Bootstrap)
  • Default button
  • Primary button
  • Info button
  • Inverse button Only in Bootstrap 2
  • Link
Bootstrap size The size of the label (as defined by Bootstrap)
  • Default
  • Small
  • Mini Only in Bootstrap 2 and 3
CSS Classes The CSS classes that can be added to the link (space separated).

Example btn btn-default will create a Bootstrap-style button if your template supports Bootstrap. Use code that is related to the version of Bootstrap your template is using.

New 6.0 Example Use btn btn-theme to match the button color with the selected color scheme

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Style The link style, following the theme default style or using Bootstrap
Bootstrap type The link type (as defined by Bootstrap)
  • Default button
  • Primary button
  • Info button
  • Inverse button Only in Bootstrap 2
  • Link
Bootstrap size The size of the label (as defined by Bootstrap)
  • Default
  • Small
  • Mini Only in Bootstrap 2 and 3
CSS Classes The CSS classes that can be added to the link (space separated).

Example btn btn-default will create a Bootstrap-style button if your template supports Bootstrap. Use code that is related to the version of Bootstrap your template is using.

New 6.0 Example Use label bg-theme to match the label color with the selected color scheme (when using Bootstrap 2)

Other overrides

CSS overrides CSS styles that can be added to improve/modify the page output or override existing CSS properties. Note that the code is minified automatically.
Example .newsintro { color: red; }

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