Content elements

To make the creation of content as intuitive as possible, Contao provides a content element for each content type that is tailored to its requirements. You can create an unlimited number of content elements per article and restrict access to individual elements as needed.

Overview

Access protection

Restrict access to a content element

Info
Protect element:Show the content element to certain member groups only.
Allowed member groups:These groups will be able to see the content element.

Nested content element

This feature is available in Contao 5.3 and later.

If you select one of these element types Accordion, Element group and Content slider, you create a nested content element. In the past, you had to create wrapper start and a wrapper stop and the content was then placed inside.

The time before the nested elements

This could very quickly become confusing and if, for example, you accidentally hid or deleted just one of the elements, it could have an impact on the front end display. But with the introduction of nested content elements is a thing of the past.

The nested content elements are here

With the new nested content elements, you create an element in which you can then place child elements. You can recognize nested content elements by the icon Child element.