I found this page in the drupal handbook:
http://drupal.org/node/162485

But it's not working, for me... don't know what I'm doing wrong. I created a template.php file, copied and pasted in the snippet, then added the body class code to my page.tpl.php file, but it just adds blank " " marks instead of the node-type.

I cleared my theme registry, as well, and my browser cache. I know Drupal is recognizing the template.php file, because when I deleted some of the code, I got a parsing error.

Help!

Maybe add print $node->type to your node.tpl.php file?

so you are saying do that in the node.tpl.php file instead of the page.tpl.php file? So, I could add an extra div to it, or, I suppose I could add it as a class to the h2 tag itself... how would I format that if I added it? like this?

Thanks for the tip.

I got it to work, I was already printing the node-ID in a div class, so I added your code to the claa, and it worked... but the node title prints in the page.tpl file, not the node.tpl file, so that didn't quite work for my use case. Grrrrr. If I add <?php print $title ?> to the node.tpl instead of the page.tpl, then views titles won't print, I believe. Maybe I'm wrong on that, I'll have to check.

I just made the switch and moved <?php print $title ?> into the node.tpl file, and it makes the title go away on my views... how do I put just views titles into my page.tpl.php file?

Here's the structure of the content section of my site now...

Is there a css selector that will allow me to select an h2 that is followed by a div with a particular class? I know how to select the div that is preceded by a particular tag...

Okay, I'm confused: what's the issue on the table now?

Did <h2 class="<?php print $node->type; ?>">Node Title PHP Code</h2> work?

As far as printing only the views title in your page.tpl.php file, I suppose you could write something like

<?php if (isset($views)) { print $title } ?>

Then if there's a views object, print the title... I dunno.

I haven't tried your views suggestion yet...

The issue is, yes, <h2 class="<?php print $node->type; ?>">Node Title PHP Code</h2> would work if the Node title was printed in the node.tpl file. It's not. It's printed in the page.tpl file, and $node->title is not available in the page.tpl file.

My ultimate work around right now would be a css selector that allows me to select an h2 tag that is adjacent to a div tag containing the class I wanted. Unfortunately, the class, when added to a div in node.tpl, exists after the h2 tag, and my understanding of the adjacent sibling elector is that the adjacent sibling needs to occur before the tag you want to select.

For instance, this would work:

While this would not:

The first example would select only h2 tags that are adjacent to .news tags, and make the background black. That's basically what I want to do (except I want to add a node-specific icon to each title.)

The second example would select .news classes that are adjacent to h2 tags. Arghh... I think I'm going to have to make a .tpl for each node type... I have 14. That's annoying.

Tony

Humm, seems you've got two options, either move the title into node.tpl.php or use jquery...

Personally, I like my titles inside my node templates.

When I did that, i got lots of weird things like duplicated titles in views, etc... If I use node as the view type rather than fields, then the view tacks on the title, as well as the node template. Any way to fix that to still allow for teasers on a views-generated page?

What did you do?

And why did the handbook thingy not work?

I haven't finished the site yet... It's on hiatus while I move to myrtle beach...

I don't KNOW why the handbook page didn't work... that's the correct solution. If you were wiling to take a look at it, I'd give you the info you need off the board.

Blessings,
Tony

Someone finally answered my post on Drupal.org. The handbook page is for D5. It's marked as D5 in the taxonomy. Anyway, there's a variable already made available to page.tpl.php that does this, no template.php file required: <?php print $body_classes; ?>. Simple. Apparently, you just have to know about this, though, because none of my searches brought up this info.

It all works now.

I had this exact same problem and this thread lead me directly to the solution. Thanks.

Here is what I ended up doing:

page.tpl.php
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style.css
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h1.page-node, h1.page-blog, h1.page-projects, h1.page-image, h1.page-sitemap {

[styles]

}

h1.node-type-blog {

[Different styles]

}

PHP should be simple. It isn't for me. You should have seen the trouble I went through just to get a favicon to work on my blog.