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Customizing the Look and Feel > Editing X-Cart's Skin Files > Using X-Cart's Debugging Console |
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When working on X-Cart's templates, you may want to use X-Cart's Debugging console. It is a tool that enables you to view the template structure of the page you are currently viewing. X-Cart's Debugging console can be launched by enabling the option 'Enable debugging console' in General settings/General options. It is also enabled automatically when you start Webmaster mode. When enabled, the Debugging console is displayed in a separate browser window. This window contains a list of templates and config files used for the current page. Note that this list is organized hierarchically, so you can see which template includes what. For example, if you use the Debugging console to explore the template structure of the Customer area front page, the result may be something like this:
As you move about the store, the contents of the Debugging console window gets updated for each page. In Webmaster mode, X-Cart's Debugging console allows you not only to view the template structure of a page, but also to quickly access any of the templates involved in this structure: clicking on the name of a template opens the respective file in X-Cart's template editor (See Using X-Cart's Template Editor). |