Liferay: How have chat-portlet disabled it's borders?

Question

Chat portlet is displayed as a long bar at the bottom of the screen. I want to write a similiar portlet.

I can draw my bar anyway on the screen with CSS styles and also I have learned how to make static portlet visible always for all users with portal-ext.propeties.

But along with my bar, Liferay draws standard portlet frame with a title and controls on it. I found that it is named "topper" in HTML code.

So how to disable topper and border for one specific portlet in the way chat-portlet did it? I failed to figure this out from chat-portlet sources.

I found two options which can be relevant to this

<use-default-template>false</use-default-template>
<system>true</system>

but they weren't work.

First one causes ClassNotFoundException and second one causes portlet content not reaching page source.

Thanks.

Dims Dims · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-01T06:49:30

I was to use

<use-default-template>false</use-default-template>

correctly. It does not work if placed in incorrect order.

Liferay: How have chat-portlet disabled it's borders?

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