{"id":3061,"date":"2014-01-10T19:59:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T19:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2014\/01\/10\/login-description-image\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T15:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T19:34:04","slug":"login-description-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/login-description-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Joomla Login Description Text and Login Image settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When creating a Joomla <em>Login Form<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/add-menu-item\/\">menu item<\/a>, two of the several options you\u2019ll see are <strong>Login Description Text<\/strong> and <strong>Login Image<\/strong>. The <em>Login Description Text<\/em> allows you to show a block of text before the login form itself, and the <em>Login Image<\/em> setting allows you to show an image before the login form.<\/p>\n<h2>How does the Login Description Text and Login Image appear?<\/h2>\n<p>In our testing, we entered the following details:<\/p>\n<div class=\"white_box\" style=\"margin: 15px 0px;\">\n<p><strong>Login Description Text<\/strong>: <em>Please sign in to access more features<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Login Image<\/strong>: We selected <em>images\/banners\/osmbanner2.png<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the screenshot below, you can see how these changes affected our Login Form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/edu\/joomla-3\/menu-item-types\/login-description-and-image.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" style=\"max-width: 675px; margin: 15px 0px;\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/edu\/joomla-3\/menu-item-types\/login-description-and-image.gif\" alt=\"login description and front end screenshot\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"alert alert-warning\"><strong>Please note!<\/strong> The Login Description setting must be set to Show in order to see Login Description Text. It does not however affect whether or not the Login Image is displayed.<\/p>\n<h3>How to change the Login Description Text and Login Image<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard\/\">Login to your Joomla Admin Dashboard<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In the top menu, Click <strong>Menus<\/strong> and then click <strong>Menu Manager<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click the name of the menu your <em>Login Form<\/em> belongs to, and when the page refreshes, find and click on your Login Form menu item<\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>Options<\/strong> tab. From here, enter in a <strong>Login Description Text<\/strong>, Select a <strong>Login Image<\/strong>, and click <strong>Save<\/strong> in the top left of the page.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When creating a Joomla Login Form menu item, two of the several options you\u2019ll see are Login Description Text and Login Image. The Login Description Text allows you to show a block of text before the login form itself, and the Login Image setting allows you to show an image before the login form. How<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/login-description-image\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4403,94],"tags":[4404],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joomla","category-joomla-3","tag-joomla-v3"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Using the Joomla Login Description Text and Login Image settings | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this tutorial, we&#039;ll show you how to use the Login Description Text and Login Image settings. 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