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Magento 2 Cookbook

You're reading from   Magento 2 Cookbook Exploring Magento 2 in the form of recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785887062
Length 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing Magento 2 on Apache and NGINX 2. Magento 2 System Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Enabling Performance in Magento 2 4. Creating Catalogs and Categories 5. Managing Your Store 6. Creating a Magento 2 Theme 7. Creating Magento 2 Extensions – the Basics 8. Creating Magento 2 Extensions – Advanced Index

Changing a layout XML of a Magento 2 module


In order to customize the layout to your own requirements, you can just add it to your theme and make the required changes. In order to change a layout from a Magento 2 module, you will need to locate the module and layout handle that you want to alter.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will change the order of some elements on the product view page based on the theme created in the previous recipe.

How to do it…

The following steps will show you how to change elements defined in a layout file to match your desired design:

  1. Create the layout handle file for the Magento_Catalog module:

    app/design/frontend/Genmato/default/Magento_Catalog/layout/catalog_product_view.xml

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <page layout="1column" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
      <body>
        <move element="product.info.stock.sku" destination="product.info...
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