Blogger template language specifications

Question

Are there any published Google official Blogger template language specifications somewhere in Google? I read this question and provided a lot of useful information, but it did not provide me with help on the specific tag that I am looking for ( variable tag).

Answer 1

Until I could find the official language specification, I found a blog called bloggeD, written by Bhavya Jain. Starting here:

http://thoughtsomething.blogspot.com/2009/01/understanding-blogger-template-1.html

Jain covers

• Included sections, widgets included. b: namespace
• Access to data. data: namespace elements
• How to use the expression: namespace - configure links

These blog entries complement the blogger’s documentation - Blogger> Help articles> Customize your blog> Layouts> Advanced use , where the most relevant sections contain “tags” in the heading - with additional information (how “expr” works for examples) and more code examples.

Tag you are talking about is not a tag as such. This is the line you put in the CSS comment (inside your b: skin tag), so you only need to define colors (and such) once:

 <b:skin> <style type='text/css'> /* * Variable definitions: * <Variable name='bgcolor' description='Page Background Color' type='color' default='#fff'/> */ body { background: $bgcolor; margin: 0; padding: 40px 20px; } </style> </b:skin> 

This sample is copied and pasted from fonts and colors for layouts. You can find it on the blogger's help page, with which I am linked above. I would contact him again, but, alas, I'm not cool enough.

Answer 2

I am a regular blogger, and even I was wondering what language they use and how it all works?

I searched a lot to make changes to my blogs and understand how it works. I finally found this answer only on Google. at http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/

The Blogger Data API allows client applications to view and update Blogger content in the form of Google Data API feeds. Your client application can use the data API to create new blog posts, edit or delete existing posts and requests for posts that meet certain criteria.

You can check out official Google examples at

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/2.0/basics.html

I did not get the variable thing you asked for.