Follow the below steps to override layout xml. Here I am creating a module ‘PHPCodez_Layout’ that will remove header and footer content from the active theme.
Declare Module
File : app/code/PHPCode/Layout/etc/module.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?> <config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../lib/internal/Magento/Framework/Module/etc/module.xsd"> <module name="PHPCodez_Layout" setup_version="0.0.1"/> </config>
Register the module
File : app/code/PHPCodez/Layout/registration.php
<?php \Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::register( \Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::MODULE, 'PHPCodez_Layout', __DIR__ );
Create Layout XML file
File : app\code\PHPcodez\Layout\view\frontend\layout\default.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?> <page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd"> <body> <referenceContainer name="header.container" remove="true" /> <referenceContainer name="footer" remove="true" /> </body> </page>
Issue the following commands and you can see that header and footer contents are removed from the pages.
php bin/magento setup:upgrade php bin/magento setup:di:compile php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f php bin/magento cache:clean