Hide a Node title in Drupal

This will work in most themes, but it is not a 100% guarantee, since some themes use sub-files for certain parts of the page. With that proviso, here is a more detailed method to making this change.

Before I go into the detail of the code, it is worth noting that you need to be sure that you are editing the 'page.tpl.php' file of the theme you are using. If you are using the default theme that comes with Drupal, you are using a theme called 'garland', and the page.tpl.php file can be located in

site_root/themes/garland/ (also, you will have to ensure that when you update drupal you either don't overwrite this file, or you add the changes again).

In Drupal 6.10, line 70 of the page.tpl.php file is as follows:

<?php if ($title): print '<h2'. ($tabs ? ' class="with-tabs"' : '') .'>'. $title .'</h2>'; endif; ?>

This is the line you want to edit. A quick change, that I have not fully tested (there might be an issue with tabs) is to change the line to the following:

<?php if ($title!="Home"): print '<h2'. ($tabs ? ' class="with-tabs"' : '') .'>'. $title .'</h2>'; endif; ?>

This will have the effect I described in the my post, (it's slightly different since different theme developers print the title value in different ways).

Some User Themes

Open the page.tpl.php file. In general, around a third of the way down the page you will find a line that will include the value

print $title (again, this is theme dependent, garland does it differently)

This statement prints the value of the title of a node. If you want to remove the title of a node from every page just delete this statement entirely. If you want to only prevent the printing of a title on certain pages, on the line before the 'print $title' line, add in:

<?php if ($title!="Home"): ?>

<?php tells the server to interpret the following lines as PHP code.

if ($title!="Home") tells the server that all lines until the 'endif' value will be executed if the condition is met. In this case the condition is actually a logical 'not' also, i.e. the conditional statement is logically reversed. This statement checks if the title value of the node is NOT 'Home', if it is not this value, then the next line is executed. In this case the next line is 'print $title', i.e. the title of the node is printed.

What all this means is that if the value of the title of a node is 'Home' the title is not printed.

The line <?php endif; ?> ends the conditional 'if' statement, and the remainder of the of the page.tpl.php file will work as before.

NOTE 1: The value of the title and the check in the if statement can be anything you want. You could set it to check for 'No Title', and if a node has the title 'No Title' it will not print it.

Hope this helps.

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