How can I remove span12 from the div before the article

Question

In the past when I did an article override I used to get:

default.php default_item.php default_links.php default_child.php

all of which were placed in templates/MYTEMPLATE/html/com_content/article/

Now when I do an override I only get default.php and default_links.php. The old default.php used to contain the part which has span12 in it. Here's the code in question which can be found on any single article page.

<div class="platform-content row-fluid">
  <div class="span12">
    <!-- the start of my single article override -->
    <div class="local-area">

When I look in components/com_content/views/article/tmpl I still don't see the oldfiles to copy.

1. What happened to them and why?
2. How do old overrides still work?
3. And most of all, how can I remove span12 from the div prior to the article? I'm doing a pretty big override and I need to put something just before that. I know I can do this with JavaScript but I prefer to use an override if possible.

Answer 1

The span12 is probably not created by the override or the content component. Check to see if it appears before all component div wrappers. If it is before every component, it is created by the template layout.

To change this you will want to change the template’s index.php file. Some template creators split the layout into several PHP files. If so, you will want to look for a file called component.php or something similar.

However, you will want to be careful removing the span12 class from the template itself. It could cause problems with other components or the page layout.