#44 - Display a Joomla Component only 

In Joomla! 1.5, you can choose the display a component by itself without any modules and without any template styles. To do this you simply have to do is add "?tmpl=component" or "&tmpl=component" to the end of the URL, depending on whether or not there are already other parameters on the end of the URL.

This trick is especially helpful for template designers because you can see HTML used in the component, and then you can decide how best to set up your CSS for styling that component.

Obviously one shoud avoid having something like this remain online, this is something which should ideally be used during the development phases only. Once the templating is ready, these links should be taken out from the live environment.