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Joomla Pagebreaks and How to Use Them

Pagebreaks are designed to split up very long articles. Joomla will automatically generate a table of contents for you. Here's how to use them:

Open Up an Article

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Go to Administrator >> Content >> Article Manager and open up any long article.

Put Your Cursor in the Text

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Place your cursor in the text at the point where you want the pages to split.

Click Pagebreak

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Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Pagebreak".

Give the New Page a Title

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Select a title for your new page and click "Insert Page Break". The second field called "Table of Contents Alias" will be the URL for this second page.

Repeat the Process

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Keep clicking "Pagebreak" until you have split this article as many times as you wish. Each time you do, you should see a grey line across the page. When you're finished, click "Save".

Visit the Article

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Now when you visit the article on the front of your site you should see two special items:
1) "Article Index" which serves as a table of contents to the article pages
2) Prev and Next buttons at the bottom of the article for people to move on to the next page


 

 


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Comments  

 
#1 J. Sharma 2010-10-21 05:29
Hi !

Can we do this in wordpress in any way?
 
 
#2 kl6H_steve 2010-10-21 09:51
Hi J. Sharma

Yes, you can. This WP support post has the details: wordpress.org/.../...

We can also do a tutorial on it.
 
 
#3 kl6H_steve 2010-10-21 15:11
Here we go, a quick tutorial:
ostraining.com/.../pagebreaks
 
 
#4 Ernie 2010-10-21 21:11
All well and good, but I cannot get page breaks to work at all. I am using ja purity and the latest Joomla version. Nothing happens when I break a page, regardless of whether I am using article layout or category blog. I wonder how you got this to work? (Have tried two plugins and neither of those works, either).
 
 
#5 Downhill Mike 2011-04-13 08:01
I am using the Brain Code Grunge 1.6 template. The page breaks are working fine and as described in tutorials.
However, can I make the new text that I added in the page title go horizontally instead of vertically.

Thanks
DHM
 
 
#6 iowawebco 2011-04-13 13:55
Hi DHM,

Not sure what you mean. It should be horizontal by default.

Could you post this in our support forum, www.ostraining.com/forum, and I can help you out there?

Kind regards,
Nick
 
 
#7 iowawebco 2011-04-13 14:14
Hi Ernie,

Sorry for the delay in responding. The best place to get help is in our support forum, www.ostraining.com/forum, as it's too hard for us to monitor all the comments around our hundreds of pages.

Let us know in the support forum if you still need help :)

Kind regards,
Nick
 
 
#8 Downhill Mike 2011-04-13 16:47
Nick,
The only thing for the page break that is horizontal is the actual line going across the page.
I am trying to figure out how to make the text for the page title go across the page. I like to keep my web pages short with minimal scrolling.
I did search this out further, but kept seeing the default is horizontal. I assumed that was the line created with a page break.
The page I want to do this to can be found here:http://bikewilmingtonn y.com/index.php/wilmington-whiteface-bike-fest

Since this article has 4 pages, there are 5 rows of text on the top of the article If you count the one that says "all pages".

If these 5 lines went across the page, I feel the page would look better.

Thanks
DHM
 

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