I’ve always struggled to theme the Body field of a node. Sure, there is a “content” wrapper, but you lose the ability to reference the field through CSS once you start adding CCK fields. I finally took the time to find a solution.
If you’ve ever tried to theme the “Body” field after adding at least one CCK field, then you know my pain – there is no way to reference the body field through CSS – there is no element to hook into.
This morning, I went out looking for a solution and found that someone had contributed a module in the Drupal issue queue. I downloaded the module and investigated the contents and – of course – it’s so simple that I’m felt a bit sheepish for not having discovered this solution earlier. The module simply wraps a <div class”node-body”></div> around the body field.
There were some problems with the module code in the ZIP file that was initially uploaded as it didn’t declare a Drupal version and there were some syntax issues in the module file. After a minute of crossing t’s and dotting i’s, I came up with this:
<?php
function bodywrapper_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $teaser, $page) {
if ($op == 'view') {
$node->content['body']['#value'] = "<div class=\"node-body\">" .
$node->content['body']['#value'] . "</div>";
}
}
Simple, isn’t it?