Issue with displaying the cart totals

Question

In my cart page i am trying to alter the styles of total price displayed

frontend\base\default\template\checkout/cart/totals.phtml

frontend\base\default\template\tax/checkout/grandtotal.phtml

frontend\base\default\template\tax/checkout/subtotal.phtml

These templates displays the subtotal and grand total.

<tfoot>
            <?php echo $this->renderTotals('footer'); ?>
        </tfoot>
        <tbody>
            <?php echo $this->renderTotals(); ?>
        </tbody>

This is the default phtml. The <tfoot> appears on first followed by <tbody> but in browser the <tfoot> appears after <tbody> .

I was trying to modify the htmls for displaying this, but the pbm i facing is grand total appears above sub total.

How to make grand total appear after sub total?

Answer 1

So you've stumbled on one of the fun parts of Magento...

And by fun I mean it is very challenging to customize.

You'll want to look at: Mage_Checkout_Block_Cart_Totals

the "renderTotals(" function...

 $html = '';
        foreach($this->getTotals() as $total) {
            if ($total->getArea() != $area && $area != -1) {
                continue;
            }
            $html .= $this->renderTotal($total, $area, $colspan);
        }
        return $html;

The $this->getTotals() call returns and ordered array, so in order to change the order on the front end you need to add logic that Sorts the array before this foreach loop.

Answer 2

It is HTML standard to show the table in this order:

table
    thead
    tbody (if any)
    tfoot

Therefore if you remove the <tfoot> (and <tbody>) it might fix your problem.