CSS and JavaScript assets

Oftentimes, templates require additional assets, such as CSS or JavaScript files. You can integrate them via your theme’s page layout, but this also means they will always be loaded, no matter if they are needed or not. Luckily, you can also tie assets to specific templates.

Adding assets

The easiest way is to put the needed files into a public directory inside /files and then reference them in the template:

<link href="files/myfolder/custom.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="files/myfolder/custom.js"></script>

If the assets should be included in the HTML header instead, you can use the following PHP code in your template:

<?php 
// will be output inside <head>
$GLOBALS['TL_CSS'][] = 'files/myfolder/custom.css|static';
$GLOBALS['TL_JAVASCRIPT'][] = 'files/myfolder/custom.js|static';
?>

Doing it this way, there are more options: By adding |static, for example, the files will be appended to or combined with existing assets from page layouts. A detailed description of all options and output locations can be found in the developer documentation under Adding CSS & JavaScript Assets.